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"I began searching for you as soon as I broke free from the flood I feared you couldn’t survive withoutyour arive"

"How did you survive?"

I recalled being caught in that whirlpool with Baget bitten Apparently that had always been my fate "I latched onto a cell-phone tower I climbed up and waited out the waters"

"Climbed with one arm?"

"I didn’t say I climbed well Circe’s an ally, isn’t she?"

Nod

"Will she help us kill Richter?"

He scrubbed a palm down his weary face "When the time comes"

"The tirandmother was here! I reached for hiht I heardis she okay?"

He took ers Still so unused to touch He cleared his throat "She hen I found her, and her health hasn’t ih"

His thumb rubbed my skin "After the first day or so, the "

"Will you move me closer to her?"

Firm shake of his head "You’re not ready"

"I could take a sunlamp and a couple of houseplants Please?" I squeezed his hand

He exhaled "And still, I can deny you nothing" He lifted me in his aruest roos moved from the tower"

Because I wasn’t a prisoner anymore "Maybe just some of my clothes I like my room up there" I’d painted the walls and made myself at hoown shifted, and I winced at the bruises onto his hand, not wanting to let hiht back" He drew his gloves fro them as he crossed to the door

Lark sidled past him into the room "Evie!" she cried The last ti two casts, one on her arm and one on her ankle, but now she was all healed up "The unclean one is back! I thought you were unclean before you got Bagger funk all in your veins You missed me, didn’t you?"