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"Yes"
"Mhm And how did you coical retreat?"
I told him about the whole sorry situation, which spilled into a story of the potion, and how I’d hidden fro helplessly and his ical as coh and layered the new spell onto the ward
"You are so, Penny Bristol Of all the decisions a person could make in their lifetiether even ely"
"Yeah Well" I didn’t really knohat else to say to that It was true, after all
"And the other night Why did you run over those bodies?"
I choked on my spit as he turned and strode back toward me He stopped in front of me and looked down onto my face Confusion seeped into his expression
"No reason," I said, about-facing andinto the house "Will we be protected?"
"Your mother will, yes Hopefully you won’t be here"
"She won’t let athered that, yes So let’s hope she convinces herself I think that is the redient I don’t have any other ideas"
"For a so-called powerful natural e, you certainly don’t have all the answers," I teased
"I never claiy, as your mother has so kindly pointed out"
My hu stone-faced at the dining room table, worry in her eyes Eet the danger I was in But if he and s wouldn’t be this quiet Soon the guild, whoever they were, wouldn’t be watching--they’d be attacking
"Sit," my mother barked
Both Emery and I took chairs dutifully, and I saw that his hueable, and powerful, but that didn’torders froaze fell on Emery "I assume you kno tarot works? That you will need to focus?"
He was looking at her worn and beat-up deck, one of her very first, which she only brought out for heavy decision- just aftercustohtly
"I knoorks, and I knohat the cards mean," he said in a heavy voice
"The cards don’t always ine," she replied, her attention shifting to her deck
Her fingers worked in practicedso fast that I was amazed a card didn’t break free from the pack and fly across the rooness I’d always thought this hen the real ic started But now, as I experienced it with new eyes, I knew this hen the real h the roo my arms and stood se froh hand coveredat aze deep
"What?" I mouthed, careful not to interrupt my , "What do you mean, what?" But whatever he saw on ed his expression to incredulous confusion, and he pulled his hand away from mine