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Outside, it indy An owl crooned in its palside the building, straggly tendrils of Spanish led strands of hair

"Maybe next time?" Penn mimicked Luce's voice "What was that about?"

"NothingI don't know" Luce wanted to change the subject "Youas they trudged along the coht you had fun at the party last week"

"If you'd ever get around to reading my recent correspondence, you'd see e have s on our plate"

Luce emptied her pockets, rediscovered the five uneaten M&M's, and shared them with Penn, who expressed a very Penn-like sentiment that she hoped they had come from a sanitary place, but ate them anyway

Luce unfolded the first of Penn's notes, which looked like a photocopied page froround archive:

Gabrielle Givens

Cameron Briel

Lucinda Price

Todd Hammond

Previous locations:

All in the Northeast, except for T Hammond

(Orlando, Florida)

Arriane Alter

Daniel Grigori

Mary Margaret Zane

Previous locations:

Los Angeles, California

Lucinda's group was noted as arriving at Sword & Cross on Septeroup had arrived March 15, three years earlier

"Who's Mary Margaret Zane?" Luce asked, pointing

"Only the very virtuous Molly," Penn said

Molly's naaret? "No wonder she's so pissed off at the world," Luce said "So where'd you get all this?"

"I dug it out froht down the other day," Penn said "That's Miss Sophia's handwriting"

Luce looked up at her "What does it ht they had all our arrival dates separately in our files"

"They do I can't figure it out, either," Penn said "And I h you showed up at the sa in common with them"

"I couldn't have less in co the coy look Gabbe always had glued to her face

Penn scratched her chin "But when Arriane, Molly, and Daniel showed up, they already knew each other

I think they came from the same halfway house in LA"

Somewhere there was a key to Daniel's story There had to beback to his reaction - that washed-out horror that Luceabout hi she and Penn were doing was futile and immature

"What's the point of all of this?" Luce asked, suddenly annoyed

"Why Miss Sophia would be collating all that inforh Miss Sophia arrived at Sword & Cross the same day as Arriane, Daniel, and Molly " Penn trailed off "Who knows? Maybe it doesn'tThere's just so little ured I'd show you everything I came up with Hence exhibit B"

She pointed toward the second note in Luce's hand

Luce sighed Part of her wanted to quit the search and stop feeling embarrassed about Daniel The pushier part of her still yearned to get to know hiely, was far easier to do when he wasn't technically present to give her new reasons to feel embarrassed

She looked down at the note, a photocopy of an old-fashioned card froori, D The Watchers: Myth in Medieval