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This goes on and on Quince easily relows in sequence And the fact that each chain only builds on the last ht, he starts to slon I can see his forehead scrunching as he tries to remember the last couple of links in the chain

By twelve, he’s starting to look mentally exhausted And physically, too, since each chain requires hiarden path low to glow He’s been doing this for hours now It takes hi seconds--to remember the last link

But he finally does, and I cheer

"Good job!" I shout "One ives arden as the final chain starts glowing

I follow the pattern withthe first several I have low of the rest When the fifteenth glows, I scan the garden eagerly for the sixteenth and final glow in the final chain

I wait and wait and wait andnothing

"Did I low?"

He holds a finger to hishe sahat I didn’t, but he looks just as lost

After studying the garden, waiting for a glow, he finally starts the last chain I watch, nervous, as he touches the fifteen glows in order Then, after the fifteenth, I hold low? I didn’t see it, and I have a clear view of the entire garden How could Quince have seen it frolow," I say to Daddy, who ignoresQuince’s attention "The sixteenth object never--"

I gasp as Quince pushes off froht toward ive up, you have to--"

Quince reacheslike I expect, he reaches for my hair I try to swim back, away fro to fail the test

He tugs so from my hair

I look down and see a Padina antillaruo leaves--in his hand And it’s glowing

"You," he says with an explosive grin "You are the sixteenth object"

I look nervously at Daddy, afraid that Quince , thatPadina antillaru after Calliope patted h of relief

Calliope winks atnotes on her clipboard

I attack Quince with akisses all over his handsome face

"I told you I would," he says