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"Plus they could just burn the whole thing down around us," Magog said, her voice strangely bored at the idea "That’s what happened to the other Brighton Pier, you know Burned up, right into the sea"

I gulped I hadn’t thought about that

"Stop arguing," Blondie said "What’s done is done At least we’re not going to Morrigan’s estate"

I didn’t tell them how I’d almost said yes to that idea I had no idea why on earth I would have said yes--it was obviously the stupidest idea possible

"We’ll get Hiral back," I said instead

Blondie sighed "How the hell did he get captured, anyway? I’ve seen hi seen Soht"

"Do you think he betrayed us, Cyntaf?" Gog said, his tattooed face sad at that thought, but also resigned, as if betrayal was so he took to be part of life

"No Hiral would never join the Alfar… any Alfar But soht… however, none of this ood plan A plan that won’t get us all killed"

She paused, picking up a saltshaker that stood on the table in front of us

"This is Jane," she said, placing it in the center of the table

I gulped, as she put other objects around the saltshaker after na them But the saltshaker that was me remained at the center

"U ain?"

"Because you’re who she wants to talk to, Jane Plus, where’s this shitshow going to go down?" she asked

"Brighton Pier," I said, wanting to screaet that already, but…"

Blondie cutYou picked a pier, babycakes And you’re our only Water Ele th of a thousand suns

It was May, but in Great Britain that didn’tover the pier was vicious, shot through with a razor’s edge of cold that even I felt, despitehter around ht a proper jacket I envied the night watch his CCTV caness for however long it took us to face Morrigan

Other than the sleeping guard and the trespassing, we hadn’t gone to et out of tonight’s ure that was such a bad thing

We had soht in froan’s peoples couldn’t drive up a truck loaded with explosives or anything And I’d spent the previous few hours setting various water snares around the peri to us that way

The e figured it, without cheating ere an equalas they didn’t coht as well ht they wanted, that’d be all right by us too

So although I was front and center, I knew that at my back stood my friends and our new allies Plus, with Anyan and Blondie standing directly behind me, I couldn’t help but feel confident

We’d decided to meet Blondie at the very back of the pier, where it was more open air and had more of a carnival at The front and middle parts of the pier were ood for fighting