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We leapt inside Now, kneeling in front of hiuessed he was in his late teens, h and unkempt--he looked like he hadn’t shaved for at least teeks--and his eyes were closed His skin was thin and pale Alrandparents’ Yet, as Mona lifted his upper lip to reveal a set of clean, white teeth, he had no fangs Clearly not a vampire As I reached out to touch one of his limp hands that rested on the arms of his wheelchair, he was not ice cold He was closer to lukewarm

"What do you think he is?" my mother asked "A half-blood?"

Shayla reached out to feel his pulse "Possibly," the witch replied "I’d need to take a closer look at hiet hi here Looks like he’s been a victiic to lift his wheelchair out of the rooround level along with est you escort him back to The Shade now Obviously be sure to keep hi with hiht be able to use your assistance"

"Uh, okay," I said I wasn’t too happy about leavinghome with Shayla than here, where my limited poere really not required with all these fire-breathers

I hugged ripped the handles of his wheelchair and pushed him to Shayla Then the three of us vanished from the hunters’ base, away from the smoke and the fire

Sofia

After Shayla and Grace left with the boy in the wheelchair, we returned to the center of activity, above the buildings

The brightness of the blaze hly destroyed, all eneons relinquished their fire

The witches and jinn worked together to extinguish the flames so that ould not wreck the woods further Then we descended to the charred ground The buildings had collapsed, the basenizable The area was nothing but rubble now

We headed to the portal located in the front of the compound Our witches already knehat had to be done next They gathered round the portal and began perfor a ritual to close it After about half an hour, where there had been a gaping hole in the ground was flat soil

The hunters would not be returning to this part of The Woodlands anytime soon