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I rushed to the an arm around each of their necks "What happened?" I asked "How colanced from my mother to my father, their faces lit up in smiles

"We found him," my father said "Your olf friend"

My jaw dropped Oh,for, but now thatit, I could hardly believe res’ shores," my father went on "He had been adrift in the ocean for some reason He reached a beach and crawled for shelter amid some shrubbery"

"He was in a bad state e--or, I should say, Micah--found hi to just send him back here with Arwen and Brock to be treated, but the rest of us could do with stocking up on weaponry We’ll be leaving again soon, perhaps even within the day"

I was burning to ask how the ht now, I couldn’t think about anything other than…

"Bastien," I breathed "Where is he?"

"In Meadow Hospital The fourth floor Being treated," my mother explained

I wished that a witch could vanish me to the hospital in an instant I darted into the elevator and hurried down to the ground I grabbedas hard as I could toward the hospital

I passed fa Ben, River, and Aiden, but I couldn’t bring s to thee of the sunflower , I left h the flowers, skidding to a stop at the hospital’s rotating entrance I rushed in Since all the elevators were occupied, I took the staircase and rushed up to the fourth level on foot

My parents hadn’t told me Bastien’s door number But many of the rooms up here were clearly vacant at present It didn’t take ht one As I arrived outside a door near thedrifted from inside I held my breath and knocked softly

"Come in," aaround a bed: Horatio, Aisha, and one of Aisha’s cousins, Fina

I darted to the bed,down at Bastien Blackhall, either asleep or unconscious The jinn had covered his body with blankets, so the only part of him exposed to me was his upper chest and face I moved near his head and placed a palentle kisses over his eyelids