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Call wasn’t the only one who noticed The third wyvern, eyes narrowed in a predatory yellow glare, curled around to face the frightened apprentice

Drew flung both his arround, as he round, lifting hi hit by the smoke, Call realized Smart

Drew called up a ball of wind into his hand and ai Drew’s concentration and pinwheeling hi any time, the wyvern darted its head forward and snapped its beak, catching the very edge of Drew’s trouser leg The cloth ripped as Drew kicked the air frantically

Call rushed forward to help -- just as the second wyvern swooped down froht toward hiestion, Call thought, if only he could run His weak leg twisted as he tried to dart away over the uneven ground, and he stuh The cold black eyes of the wyvern were focused on hirew closer and closer Call broke into a shaainst the rock He wasn’t fast enough Looking over his shoulder, he tripped and went flying, slaravel and sharp stone

He rolled over onto his back The wyvern reared up over hi hi too serious happened, but awith fear The wyvern see, revealing a scalyout his arm He felt a burst of dull heat explode around hiround, haainst the wyvern’s chest

The beast flew back and was knocked hard against the cave wall, before slu himself slowly to his feet When he was up, he looked around with new eyes

Oh, he thought, seeing thepast and kids spinning in circles as they lost their concentration and their ic tossed them from side to side He understood, all at once, why they’d been practicing in the sand rooic had become automatic to higling to its feet, but now Call was ready He focused, throwing his hand out, and three stalactites cracked free, slas

"Ha!" said Call

The beast opened its beak, and Call h to avoid thefro for his belt, Call pulled out the knife and tossed it to her The wyvern’sto curl out With two quick strides, Tah the sh the wyvern’s eye Just as it was about to hit, theto its elean to float upward

Call grabbed her leg It was a little bit like holding the string of a balloon, since she continued to bob in the air

She grinned down at hied all over with dirt and sand, her hair loose and tu with Miri, and Call turned in ti a flood of small rocks toward a wyvern Celia, from her perch, rained down more stones In the air, they becale strike before it crashed into rubble against the far wall