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"No, I’et it if it has a nauess"

"Better than Butterfly Pool," Call said "I mean, what kind of name is that for a lake that helps make weapons? It should be called Killer Lake Or the Pond of Stabbings Or Murder Puddle"

"Yeah," Ta you Master Obvious"

The next chaiant shark’s teeth, cluht really be attached to the jaw of so beneath this scarily sharp overhang, Call, Aaron, and Ta Here, the rock was pocked with cave forh they were in some kind of oversize termite nest Call concentrated and a crystal in the far corner began to glow, so they wouldn’t forget they’d been this way

"Is this place on the map?" he asked

Aaron squinted "Yeah In fact, we’re almost there Just one rooh a dark archway, then reappeared a moment later, flushed with victory "Found it!"

Tamara and Call crowded in after hi all sorts of spectacular underground roo the Library and the Gallery, Call kneas seeing soh in one wall, a torrent of water poured out, splashing down into a huge pool that glowed blue, as if lit froreen lichen, and the contrast of the green and the blue e marble The air was redolent with the odor of so spice

"Huh," Aaron said after a few minutes "It is kind of weird that it’s called the Butterfly Pool"

Tae "I think that’s because the water is the color of those blue butterflies -- what are they called?"

"Blue monarchs," Call said His father had always been a fan of butterflies He had a whole collection of thelass over his desk

Tamara put her hand out The pool shuddered, and a sphere of water rose up from it Even as it shifted and rippled across the surface, it kept its shape

"There," Tamara said, a little breathlessly

"Great," said Aaron "How long do you think you can hold it?"

"I don’t know" She tossed back a thick dark braid, trying not to let any strain show on her face "I’ll tell you whenthe ainst one of the damp walls "Noe just need to find our way --"

At that moment, the map in his hands burst into flaers away froes fell in a shower of e her focus The water she’d been suspending splashed down over her uniform and turned into a puddle at their feet

The three of thehtened his shoulders "I guess that’s what Master Rufus hted stones or ood for the way here"

"Should be easy," Tauys lithopefully in Aaron’s direction Aaron didn’t look back

Taure out the way back You carry the water"

With a shrug, Call went over to the lake and concentrated on shaping a ball Call drew on the air around him to move the water and felt the push-pull of the eleood at it as Tamara, but he did okay His ball dripped only a little as it hovered

Aaron frowned and pointed "We came in there This way I think …"