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Penny tucked a flyaway strand of hair behind her ear before looking up at everyone through her thick black lashes I couldn’t get over how e, luminous blue eyes, little pixie features, and pluirl ould stores, and dole out punches like they were business cards

"Listen," I said, holding up ht want to learn, but this is the big tih and tries to run and hide She could get herself, or one of us, killed"

She straightened up a little as irritation crossed her expression When she ain

"Reagan, you’re giving her crazy eyes," Callie said, grabbing the girl by the upper arht, Penny This is the point of no return There is going to be soht place," Dizzy muttered

"I take it you didn’t mention any of this when you spoke with her?" I asked Callie

"Then she wouldn’t have co to banish a dehtened up again, her eyes flicking to Darius She looked away just as quickly "I owe hi through n eet any worse?

But, of course, the ansas yes, it could get worse It could get a lot worse Was about to, in fact, because either ere in the right place and were heading into battle, or eren’t and a demon with my secrets would escape to the underworld and tattle to , Penny, harden up," I said, walking "Otherwise, get out now"

"You’ll be fine," Callie said I could hear pats, probably Callie trying to comfort her "Just hex the hell out of anyone who isn’t on our side"

"Hex, shoot, stab, eye-gouge--whatever" I walked out into the crisp night, a wonderful change from the sticky hu so is not the tered up to h your method?"

"Sure I walk around, usually quietly, and look for evildoers Soic and then find the evildoers Generally, a battle ensues, and I kill said evildoers, often accidentally I always blame this on them, of course"

"Yes, yes, of course" He watched

"Dizzy, why don’t you look around for anything odd?"

"The rest of the group will do that You are infinitely ives me ideas for new spells"

Fabulous

"Thatat a squat, rectangular building up ahead "Beyond it will be lots twelve through fourteen I assuo Companies must rent this space out There are other lots on the other side, but I can’t remember the numbers"

"Why do you know so much about this place?" Penny asked

"I looked at the map, dear There are several online"

"Oh"

I paused in the shadow of a quiet checkpoint,Callie had called the yard office A ht trained on the ground froaze swept in an arc, surveying the area Though his head was , no one was ho Boredo on, sticking to the shadows around the large check-in structure that was shut down except for one guard also asleep at the wheel, we skirted by without a probleh the lot, looking at the various containers and other cargo Nothing looked out of the ordinary, and ic

"What’s beyond this, Callie?" I whispered

"Ulow illuminated her face as she studied her phone "On the other side of the road, which we can’t see fro at all," Dizzy whispered

"--is the other lots"

"Are," Penny said It sounded like an afterthought

"What?" Callie looked at her