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I stayed right where I was, peering up at the stars "You see one arm behind my head like a pillow "But I’m not In fact, I’ve solved our riddle"

"You have?" she asked, skeptically "Was the ansritten on the inside of your eyelids?"

"Nope," I replied, letting her stew

"Then where?" she said, through gritted teeth

"The answer," I drawled, letting her steam, "is up there" And with that, I pointed to the heavens

"Up there?" she echoed, looking from the sky, down at me, and then back up at the sky as if to ask And what have you been sle," I said, as I finally sat up "Can you groings big enough for two?"

"U for a little flight Now co"

I watched her strip off her long-sleeved shirt, only justthe light frohts Around her, the air shis sprouted fro, soft duvets,me crave a nap even el and a drunken ht Anyan must have appreciated it too because he barked so hard at Blondie’s ue

Distracted by doggie-Anyan’s shenanigans, it took inal, to realize that I wasat her boots as she launched herself up in the air Without me

Oooo she’s a bitch, said ht my libido At this point, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be Blondie or make out with her Or both, I wondered, in ould be my philosophical conundrum of the decade

We all watched her soar up into the heavens and then hover on a cloud of h the air in sloerful sweeps She was up there for only a fewhither and thither

She’s opening the glyph, I thought, as she ain

But nothing happened So she did it again And then again

Then she was landing besidelike a she-devil between hoarse pants

"It’s not fucking working!" she cursed "If those fucking harpies got here first, I a to rip off their beaks and shove them up their--"

"Take me up," I interrupted calmly "Let me see"

What I didn’t tell her was that every time she’d flown her complicated pattern, I’d felt a kick, but not from below us

It caoing to turn her tongue on me--and not in the nice way But at the last second she paused, and then held out her ar, I walked over to where Blondie stood

"Caleb, Iris, you need to take Anyan and get so to where the satyr and succubus stood watching us "I’ to work, or if we’ll just set off another trap like we did before But I think this is going to be it, and if we lose--or if we get incapacitated in any way--it’s going to be up to you two to call in the Mounties"

Caleb shuffled his hooves, and Iris looked atto Blondie as if hoping the Original would contradictwe need to do alone"

I frowned, looking at Blondie That wasn’t what I said, at all, I thought, again feeling like Blondie was talking about so I wasn’t necessarily clued in to

Iris was still frowning, but she’d taken Caleb’s hand and grabbed Anyan by the scruff of his neck Blondie’s power flowed around us as she apparated my friends somewhere safe

And then I finally experienced the stuff about which songs are written: Blondie Super me up underneath s and even stronger e to squeal and hide rave; la Lois Lane I also concentrated on not peeingwithout a plane is very scary