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When Call picked up the book, a folded-up note fell froes Call lifted it and read:

Callum,

I know this isn’t your fault I love you and I a that happened Keep your chin up at school

Affectionately,

Alastair Hunt

He had signed it with his full na the letter in his hand, Call sank down onto the bed

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CALL COULDN’T SLEEP that night He was keyed up fro over the words of his dad’s note, trying to puzzle out what they meant It didn’t help that Call had iu him about ready to bounce off the cave roof without the need for wyvern breath to propel him If his father had sent Call’s skateboard (and it was annoying that he hadn’t), he would’ve been careening into walls with it

His dad had written that he wasn’t angry, and the words he picked didn’t sound angry either, but he sounded so else Sad Cold, icians stealing Call’sprivate It was an understatement to say that his dad could be a little paranoid soes

If only Call could talk to him, just for a second He wanted to reassure his father that he was doing fine and that no one had opened the package but hiisteriuisterium had telephones

Call’s mind went immediately to the tiny tornado on Master Rufus’s desk If Call waited to be taught how to pilot the boats to sneak back there, heforever to talk with his father He’d proved at the test that he could adapt his ic to many situations he hadn’t been specifically trained for Maybe he could adapt to this one, too

After so long with only the two uniforms, it esome to have a bunch of clothes to choose from Part of hiisteriuuin

In the end, he settled for black jeans and a black T-shirt with a faded Led Zeppelin logo on it, the outfit he deeht, he buckled Miri’s sheath through a loop of his belt, and ducked out through the darkened co around, he was suddenly aware of how much his and Tamara’s stuff was spread all over the place He’d left his notebook on the counter, his bag tossed haphazardly on the couch, one of his socks on the floor beside a plate of crystalline cookies with a biteTamara had scattered even s, pens with feathered ends, and bangle bracelets But of Aaron, there was nothing What little stuff he had was in his roohtly as if this were a military school

He could hear Ta froo back to bed He still didn’t know the tunnels very well and re lost They weren’t supposed to be out of their rooms this late without per in trouble

Taking a quick breath, he pushed all doubts out of histhe day He just had to figure out the boats

The hall outside the colow of rocks and had fallen utterly, eerily silent The quiet was punctuated only by distant drips of sedimite