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"No" Drew looked at hi"

Call had never doneMaster Rufus talked about, but they’d never practiced But he’dwith hilobe of light that lit the ends of his hair like a halo He skidded down the slope of the incline, nearly knocking into theht

Call moved away "Drew’s stuck I think his ankle’s broken"

Alex bent over the younger boy and touched the earth that was trapping his leg in place Call felt stupid for not having thought of the saround crumbled away and Alex locked his ar him free Drew yelled aloud in pain

"Didn’t you hear me? His ankle’s broken --" Call started

"Call There’s no tiet out of here"

"W-what?" Drew see on?"

Alex was scanning the area anxiously Call suddenly res about what lurked in the woods outside the caverns of the school

"The Chaos-ridden," Call said "They’re here"

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

A LOW HOWL CUT through the night Alex started up the incline, gesturing impatiently for Call to follow Call scra

When they reached the top, Call saw Aaron and Ta over the crest of the hill, Celia, Jasper, and Rafe right behind They were panting, alert

"Drew!" Taure in Alex’s ar to a stop in front of Call and Alex "They’re co up over the far side of the hill --"

"What kind?" Alex asked urgently

"Wolves," said Jasper, pointing

Still holding Drew in his arht showed dark shapes slipping fro and lean, with fur the color of a stor eyes wild and strange

Alex bent down and laid Drew carefully on the ground "Listen tofearfully "Make a circle around us while I heal Drew They have a sense for the weak, the wounded They’ll attack"

"We only have to hold off the Chaos-ridden until the Masters get here," Taht, hold them off, that’s simple," Jasper spat out, but he fell into for a circle of their bodies, with their backs to Alex and Drew Call found hi shoulder to shoulder with Celia and Jasper Celia’s teeth were chattering

The Chaos-ridden wolves appeared, low and feral, spilling up over the ridge like shadows They were huge, ined Ropes of drool hung fro that feeling inside Call’s head again, the itchy-burning-thirsty one Chaos, he thought to hi as they were, though, the ht their eyes were beautiful, like the inside of a kaleidoscope, a thousand different colors all at once He couldn’t tear his gaze away

"Call!" Tahts -- Call jolted back into his body, realizing suddenly that he had stepped out of the forroup He hadn’t moved away from the wolves He’d moved toward them