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"Hopefully Point out the house that is behind yours"

A couple ofto make sure the coast was clear, we crossed to the side of the house behind ate of the fence A sh ere covered by the invisibility spell It stopped ten feet away, not at all pleased

I draped a sound-deadening spell over it

"All those spells in your head, and you use the one I stole fro lightened the heaviness onI didn’t know if I could duplicate everything I’d done last night Half the things I did were spur of thecame to me this time around? What if I let Emery down? Lives would be lost The people I loved would be hurt

"Easy does it, Turdswallop," Emery whispered as we slowed by the back fence on the other side of my yard "This is the worst part It’s understandable that you’re anxious"

I gulped and nodded as he stepped up onto the botto to the top one, and slowly lifted his head over He dropped back down quickly, before pushing back up a moment later Then farther up still The spell clearly worked, and also, there was someone in my backyard

He lowered back down as I palht kill me

"Three of thes" His brow furrowed and he looked down "I really wish I’d called in ot here"

"What?" I asked

He shook his head and looked into the yard "I can…" Streaic spewed from our belts, then all around us "I can create a type of tornado It’ll be powerful It should scatter their casings" He paused "Hopefully"

"They can’t see us" I hopped from one foot to the other My breath came in pants "Let’s just sneak up, zap them, take their stuff, and bust into my house" I swatted my braid froround to a halt and a sraced his face "Why didn’t I think of that?"

"Because you are the world’s worst planner, obviously Come on"

His body shook with chuckles, and he bent with his fingers entwined and palesturing to the fence beside me

"You’ll probably slip and scrape your face Take a hand" He shook his hands at ot one mother I don’t need two"

Despiteto adht It had happened a few ti over When he was in the sa over after it He dropped down right beside e in a purple robe drew her penciled-on eyebrows together and looked right at aze slid away and she eyed the top of the fence

"It seee said fro so, h? The back"

The fes between her fingertips, one in each hand "Which is e’re here The Baron doesn’t think they’ll be here until dark They hit the guild last night really late with a bunch of vampires Seems likely the vampires helped theht The Baron is bringing in more people"

"I heard the Chancellor’s anxious to capture them He wants all that power at his disposal"

"It depends on how irl cares about her friend She doesn’t have a srass I froze Streay wobbled He was planning so