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"I cannot return there," Lucas said, shaking his head "I want to look for h "I know, but hoill you ever find hi that’s where he is In fact, I’et there myself But Corrine knows"

At the uessed had never hidden her opinion on his character from him--Lucas looked even more reluctant

"Just come with me, Lucas Come with us…" My voice trailed off as I remembered Nolan, Chantel and Marcilla "Will you coerly

"Yes We’ll do anything to help you," Nolan said He had tears of joy in his eyes "We’ll do anything to help you secure these bodies for us"

I turned back to my uncle "Our first priority is to secure these bodies Then we can look for your son"

He grimaced "I’ll just… wait by the boundaries then," he ue with him further There was no time If he didn’t want to come into the island that was his choice, but he was clearly a changed person and I was sure that everyone would give hiiven Kiev a second chance, after all

Still, I couldn’tin the sunlight Noas faced with the daunting proposition of finding ain But at least by now, I had done it a number of times, and it should be faster and easier Now of all tiet lost

We set off--Lucas in his new fae body was thankfully just as fast as the rest of us It was a real blessing that fae were able to travel with such speed I found host Fae could assuhouls--but they also had subtle forave theh, even as we flew, I remained in my solid state the entire tih of being a spirit Enough for a million lifetiony Each hour that passed was one less hour that we had to accomplish our mission, and we only had three days When we arrived back in The Shade, it would be a shock for everyone, but there wouldn’t be h I wouldan extra hour

Finally, we reached the island And I was coun to descend in the sky By my estimate, it was still early afternoon I could only count my lucky stars

"This could’ve been worse," I muttered to Kailyn "A lot worse"

As soon as the familiar rock foretting entirely about the boundary I whacked into it and bounced off I could barely even bring ht take for us to attract the attention of one of the three authorized witches To me it was only a joyous rean hollering as loud as we could until, what felt like fifteeneyes on us, she practically choked on her tongue She seeaped at us She blinked several ti like a fish as she looked from me to Kailyn to our other three co’s, to Lucas

"My God," she rasped "My God This is not happening This isn’t real"

I hurried over to her, cutting off her raripped her shoulders--a little harder than I’d intended I relished the feel of her solid body between ed

"Oh, no, no, no, no!" she shrilled, shaking her head "I’ for this You are… jinn or… witches or… soan to flee, but I held on to her Apparently, Corrine has never encountered fae before Glaring into her eyes, I had to get through to her before she decided to vanish into thin air

"Perfor down at her "The sa theasp She narrowed her eyes on me and frowned so hard her forehead rippled "Ben?" she breathed

"Yes!" I said "Test ainst ht electric shock--siriffin’s body When I didn’t change form, the witch’s eyes filled with tears

"Oh, my God I can’t believe it!" She launched herself at ht I could barely breathe

"Corrine," I said, detaching myself from her "There’s no time You must let us in now!"

Corrine’s eyes roaestured toward them "Test them all if you must, but I can assure you that they are who they look like"

Corrine tested theaping as though he had tentacles sprouting froht my eye and shook his head "As I told you, Ben, I don’t wish to coht even forget about you in all the rush if you stay up here"