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"Steven and I expect that the rest of you will be quite shaken up," Francesca continued, widening her gaze to include Miles and Shelby "Classes are canceled today, and we'll be in our o ces if you'd like to coelic way of hers, then turned on her high heels and clicked down the hallway

Shelby got up and shut the door behind Francesca "Can you believe she used the ter? Is Dawn a library book?" She balled her hands up "We have to do solad Dawn's safe, and I trust Steven--I think book?" She balled her hands up "We have to do solad Dawn's safe, and I trust Steven--I think --but I'ht," said Luce, looking over at Miles "We'll distract ourselves We could go for a walk--"

"Too dangerous" Shelby's eyes darted from side to side

"Or watch a movie--"

"Too inactive Myabout a soccer ga lunch," Miles threw out

Shelby clamped a hand over her forehead "Need I remind you I aame--"

Finally Shelby's eyes lit up "How about the ga where we track down your relatives again I could help you"

Luce chewed on her lower lip Punching through that Announcer yesterday had seriously rocked her foundation She was still physically disoriented, ein to address how it had made her feel about Daniel

"I don't know," she said

"Youyesterday?" Miles asked

Shelby cranked her head around and glared at Miles "Are you still here?"

Miles picked up a pillow that had fallen on the oor and chucked it at her She swatted it back at hi impressed with her own re exes

"Okay, ne Miles can stay Mascots are always handy And we ht, Luce?"

Luce closed her eyes Yes, she was dying to know more about her past, but what if it was as hard to s as it had been the day before? Even with Miles and Shelby at her side, she was scared to try again

But then she relimpsed the Sodom and Gomorrah Announcer in front of the class Afterward, the other students had reeled, but Luce kept thinking that whether or not they had gliruesome scene didn't matter in the least: It would still have happened Just like her past

For the sakes of all her former selves, Luce couldn't turn away now "Let's do it," she said to her friends

Miles gave the girls a few et dressed, and they reconvened in the hallway But then Shelby refused to go out to the forest where Luce had summoned the Announcers

"Don't look at ot nabbed, and the woods are dark and creepy I don't really want to be next, you know?"

That hen Miles insisted it would be good for Luce to try to practice su the Announcers somewhere new, like the dor," he said "Make those Announcers your bitches You know you want to"

"I don't want the to Luce "No o ense, but a girl likes her privacy"

Luce wasn't o ended But it wasn't like the Announcers ever really stopped following her, regardless of when she su by the dorm roo with the Announcers is de a new puppy You just have to let it knoho's boss"

Luce cocked her head at Miles "Since when do you know so much useful stu about the Announcers?"

Miles blushed "I may not always `apply s"

"So what? She just stands there and summons?" Shelby asked

Luce stood on Shelby's rainbow-colored yoga ht about how Steven had coached her "Let's open a ," she said