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"And what?" she asked, her voice shaking a little "None of your kind has ever killed? None of you witches or shapeshifters or fae? Vampires are the only ones who've ever taken a life?"

All eyes were on Elodie, and I think we expected her to lunge for Jenna's throat or soreen eyes were positively glittering as she sneered, "What do you know about anything?

You're not even a real Prodigiu see they all thought but never acknowledged out loud

"Our families' powers are ancient," Elodie continued, her face pale, except for two red spots on her cheeks "We are the descendents of angels

And what are you? A pathetic little human as fed on by a parasite; anow "So I'm the monster? What about you, Elodie? Holly toldto do"

I waited for Elodie to fire back with so, but instead she turned very pale Anna had stopped crying and was clutching Elodie's shoulder

"Let's go," she i about," Elodie said, but she looked scared

"The hell you don't Your little coven was trying to raise a deasped But the rest of the hall was quiet

Elodie just stared at Jenna, but I thought I heard Anna whimper

In the face of that stare, Jenna started to babble "She said you wantedritual, and you needed a sacrifice to do that Y-you have to let the deained her composure "A demon? You think we could raise a demon here and not have Mrs Casnoff and the Vandy and the Council jump all over us? Please"

Someone in the crowd snickered, and the tension broke One person laughing gives everyone perh, so that's what they did

Jenna stood there listening to that er than I could have Then she pushed past me and went down the hall and into our rooone, theto Siobhan "Which one of us is next?"

Siobhan's blue wings shuddered as she replied, "All I did was fly to catch the bus! I don't deserve to be locked up here with killers"

"Jenna isn't a killer," I said, but I realized I didn't know that for sure

She was a vampire Vampires feed off huht away even as I re so hard not to look at my blood that first day

To , "Sophie's right There's no proof Jenna killed anybody"

I have no idea if she said it because she actually believed it, or if she just wanted to irritate Nausicaa, but I was grateful anyway

"Thanks," I said, but Beth stepped in betweenSophie Mercer has to say, Taylor"

I stared at Beth What happened to our whole hairsniffingto one of the other weres, and she said Sophie's dad is the head of the Council"

I heard a few lared at er ones just looked confused

Crap

"Her dad is the one who let vampires into Hex," Beth said She looked back at uonna say Jenna's innocent Otherwise her daddy's job would be on the line"

I did not have time for this "I've never even met enda or anything I broke the rules and got sentenced to Hex Just like everyone else"

Taylor narrowed her eyes "Your dad is head of the Council?"

Before I could answer, Mrs Casnoff appeared at the top of the stairs

She was still in her wet robe, and she looked majorly stressed, but she wasn't nearly as pale, so I took that as a good sign

"Attention, ladies," she said in a voice that"Thanks to Cal's efforts, Miss Burnett has regained consciousness and appears to be on the, "What does she uy?"

I'd expected a snotty response about how stupid I was, but Anna was apparently too relieved about Chaston to be bitchy "He's a white warlock,"

she replied "A super-powerful one He can heal wounds other witches and warlocks can't"

"Why didn't he heal Holly, then?" I asked, and that got me a snotty look Good to know Anna was back to normal "Holly was already dead when they found her, thanks to your little friend Call can only heal the living; he can't raise the dead No one can"

"Oh," I said la to Elodie

"Her parents will come for her tomorrow," Mrs Casnoff continued, "and I hope she will be able to rejoin us after winter break"

"Has she said anything?" Elodie asked "Did she say who did it?"

Mrs Casnoff frowned slightly "Not at this ti ru this very seriously, and the last thing we need is panic"

Elodie opened her mouth, but a look fro she was about to say