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Maybe Phaedra’s entourage was the diversion, I thought, ht before I could speak, Iris beat me to the chase

"So, like, have y’all tried under the rock?"

We all blinked at her, as enius flew out ofabout the air above our heads

"Iunder it Maybe they weren’t trying to do anything to the actual rock besides move it," my succubus friend clarified, as we all shook our heads at our own obtuseness

"Of course," Caleb breathed "Iris, what a great idea"

Iris flushed al I don’t think I’d ever seen her look so pleased with a compliment, and I knew she had entire volumes of poetry written to her beauty by enraptured huht to look under the rock," Anyan said, obviously feeling sheepish

"It’sto steal it I never thought they ht till we get it up and over," Iris reminded us "You don’t think Gus will care if we move it, do you?"

"We can put it back He’ll be none the wiser," Anyan said, as I felt hith to Anyan’s, and as they were both earth ele stones around That said, it was a le-elemental (or double-eleh theirs They’d been trying to lift and carry the stone with their ic, which was silly We didn’t have to move it to Eastport We just needed a peek underneath

"Lettheir attehle I couldn’t do much with their power besides channel it, but that’s all I needed

I created a wedge withit toward the base of Gus’s rock Then I ra an to shift, slowly By then, the boys realized what I was doing and the three of us poured our an to tip, and then it slowly toppled to its side

"I was right!" Iris exclai it herself

And she was For lurking underneath Gus’s boulder was a hole, just about wide across for the biggest of us to get through Where it went, nobody knew But I was pretty sure ere about to find out

"It’s like so from Zelda," Anyan said and frowned I know I felt a bit weak fro the rock I’m sure he did, too Only difference was, I could already feel hi to have to wait for a swi down into the darkness

"We should call Nell and Trill," Caleb intoned "They’ll want to be here"

"Tell theree to do!"

I sighed That should have been my line

"Careful, Jane Not too fast… let out a little ot you," Anyan coached, until I felt his hand on ht Anyan had already set aflaic until we kneas down in the cave A lot of supernatural alar huone down the hard way, instead of apparating Who kneas waiting for us under Gus’s rock? But if it was soested, it ic