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"What? No!" Taerous He’s got a chaos ele Aaron won’t work otherwise" Call looked her in the eye and hoped she could see that he wasn’t going to back down "Trust me"

Tamara nodded once Then, with a quick sh the door, the tread of her boots so soft that after two steps, he could no longer rowl of the chaos elemental He counted to ten -- one one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand -- and then flung open the door as wide as it would go

"Hey, Drew," Call said, plastering on a grin "This sure doesn’t look like pony school to me"

Drew jerked back so hard in surprise that he hauled on the chain, yanking Aaron several feet up Aaron yelled out in pain, rowl

"Call?" said Drew in disbelief, and Call flashed back to that night in the ditch outside the Magisteriu out for Call, his ankle snapped Behind hi the stacked cages as a sort of ladder, ja as silently as a cat "What are you doing here?"

"Seriously? What a here? Besides trying to feed one of your fellow students to a chaos elemental I mean, seriously, what did Aaron do to you? Beat you on a test? Take the last piece of lichen at dinner?"

"Shut up, Call"

"Do you really think you won’t get caught?"

"I haven’t gotten caught yet" Drew seeave Call a nasty smile

"Was it all just an act -- all that stuff about Master Leular student? Have you been a spy for the Ene for tily brown hair, skinny, big blue eyes, freckles -- but there was soly and dark

"The Masters are so stupid," said Drew "Alorrying about what the Ene about the Treaty Never thinking there could be a spy right aisteriue, what did they do?" He opened his blue eyes wide, and for anervous about going to ic school " ‘Oh, Master Lehed, the innocentthe coldness underneath

Havoc growled at that, sliding between Drew and Call "What were you bringing the Enee about?" Call demanded To his relief, Tamara was almost at the rafters "Was it about Aaron?"

"The Makar," said Drew "All these years, the es have waited for a Makar, but they’re not the only ones We aiting, too" He jerked on the chain holding Aaron, who made a noise of pain, but Call didn’t look up He couldn’t He kept staring at Drew, as if he couldbut him

"We?" Call said "Because I just see one crazy person here You"