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The little pony nodded where she stood a our knees

"That’s what happened to you?" Anyan asked, his face troubled I nodded at hied up," he told everyone "I healed her," he added, la? Is that what’s it’s called?" she asked, clearly ribbing the barghest I held back a giggle as he turned a rather intense shade of red Iris gavean eyebrow at me in question I responded with a cheeky wink thatlike that’s ever happened before with the Sow?" Caleb asked otten a lot of power from her, but I’ve never lost myself like that"

"We should keep the humans even farther away from the Sow for a while," Marcus said "Just in case"

Aether and try to reme any new ones"

"I can make one of those ushed, sounding excited about the idea To be honest, after all the drama she had experienced, I was surprised she wanted to be involved inproactive, rather thanIris a warm smile

"Yeah, but what does all of this tell us?" I cut in, still not quite sure as going on afterhiatus in coma land "I ?"

"Well, we know that hu possessed," Nell responded to s But yours see you into the Sow"

"Maybe that was just a ?" Anyan wondered aloud, as he tried to figure out why the possessions would change style "Maybe whatever’s out there is trying to show us its power Shohat it can do"

Sarah shrugged "Maybe Oraround Natural habitats can be influenced by our hoodoo"

"The voodoo that you do so well," I intoned solenored And yet I persevered "So we know that there are possessions taking place and that they consist of so, basically, what do we really know, rather than what are we guessing?"

"There has to be so here, in Rockabill It’s the only explanation for the possessions, and us getting attacked the ere," Anyan said "I’h unstoppable So they wanted to get ainst Nell So they could enter the Territory"

"But Jane got ’em, instead," Iris said, her voice proud

"What else have they tried?" I said, realizing that couldn’t have been the bad guy’s only attempt in a whole month "That can’t have been their only attack"

"It wasn’t," Caleb agreed "There are all sorts of little things happening Probes at Nell’s boundaries; things sneaking in, obviously looking for so off; ‘tourist’ humans who act funny, but not in a possessed way After what happened to you and Anyan, we’ve been watching the humans as carefully as our own kind And Nell’s been kept very busy watching her boundaries"

"There have also been creatures sniffing around Iris’s, as well as sos that are outside Nell’s ione cold and hard Iris put a hand on his, gently as if to cal herself he was there to protect her