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It was so good

We’re getting ready to start training with the swords, and I don’t want to be impaled because I can’t breathe fro to Jake about the layout of Edinburgh, in the kitchen and hurry through the front sitting roo to Victorian, and bound up the steps to the second floor Jogging to the end of the corridor, I slip into my and Eli’s room, cross over to my duffel on the floor where I dropped it earlier, throw it onto the bed, and start rifling through it I find a tie for my hair and pull it back into a ponytail Next, a pair of black Lycra pants I toe off my boots, unbuttonthem into a pile, I pull on the Lycra and fish in rab the he did it take to ink that dragon onto your back?"

I don’t jump in surprise, nor do I snap around and cover o "I heard you cracking your knuckles as you left your room, Noah Miles," I say I pull the tank over my head and turn around "You don’t think you can possibly sneak up on me Do you, bro?"

"Maybe But I don’t see how you can sneak up on anyone, wout," Noah says He’s leaning against the doorfra Clad in a pair of black running pants and a plain white T-shirt, he looks about as average as any guy in a gyood, even

He grins "So How long?"

I ignore the fact that he randohts any tis, maybe four to five hours each," I answer "You outline first, then once it heals, maybe in three to four weeks, the color is added"

"You miss it?" Noah adds He walks over, lifts one offroertip

"Yeah," I say "Why--you want one?" I grin at him

Noah’s head is bent over my forearoing to have to keep covered while we’re here," he says "You know that, right?"

Grabbing , I pull them on "What do you mean?"

"Like Andorra says, you need to draw as little attention to yourself as possible," Noah says "This isn’t Savannah, babe Your ink sticks out Draanted attention you don’t want to have to deal with Locals" With a knuckle, he grazes the wings at my eye "And, yeah, I know you can handle yourself"

He does, too I like that about Noah He has my back if I need it, but I seriously have to need it before he jumps in to cover me He respects my abilities Gotta love that about a three-hundred-year-old vauys at Bene’s accept my body art, I definitely don’t want to stick out

"Andhis long lashes Infiltrating ain

"You’re ridiculous, Noah," I say, and I can’t help but s kid Yetto see hiht? Breathtakingly beautiful I know that uess I ao"

Noah and I walk out of the rooether and head down the corridor

"This place is a little creepy Don’t you think?" he says as we near the steps "There’s so, I don’t knoeird about the idea of little unruly schoolkids that freaksup the steps to the third-floor training area "Yeah, I agree Little pale-skinned Victorian-era kids, wearing black dresses and stockings and button-up boots, is definitely creepy," I say

"Slipping around corners, talking in hushed whispers, and just beingweird," Noah adds "Kids," he says with a shudder

We both chuckle as we hit the third-floor landing Halfway down the corridor is an open set of dark double doors We step through, and Jake, who is standing close by, gives rin

"You’ve reason to suspect the children once housed here were creepy," he says "They were"--he strokes his chin--"extraordinary, one ht say"

"Extraordinary?" I ask The others in the rooer, Lucian, Victorian, Noah, and Eli--all turn to listen

"Aye," he continues "All had exceptional gifts Levitation Mind reading Transversing space Just to naeneral public of Edinburgh thought they werein an old Victorian-era children’s insane asylum?" Noah asks He looks atin, Noah, once belonged to one Professor Gallagher," Jake says