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I nearly drop the book "You saw light?"

He nods, eyeing ?"

I shake " It’s a lie Because it’s sounds sotaken away by light

He keeps staring at ives up "We should probably go in case he comes back," he says and then we hurry out of the house

I start reading through the pages of the Foreseers’ book during the drive honificant, but then I stu

The Room of Forbidden: A desolate place where no soul lives except the seer that committed the crime In the Room of Forbidden, the seer will spend an eternity alone No one can enter the Room of Forbidden, for the room exists only in the seer’s mind

The power of a Foreseer’s mind: The Foreseer’s mind is one of the most powerful tools In fact, some of the more powerful Foreseers are able to push their reat need

Push the reat need? I wonder how that works because it see for detailed instructions, but the there’s only a drawing of a person with an eye on their forehead so I ski for the words "purple" or "fla the car in the driveway, I still haven’t found anything about it

When Alex turns off the engine, he rotates in the seat to face me "Can we keep what happened back at the house a secret? I don’t want to worry Aislin more than she already is She’s been really stressed out lately"

Nodding, I shut the book "Of course"

"And the stuff that happened in the trapdoor" He scratches his head, looking uncoet that ever happened"

The prickle stabs at the back of et about all the times we fked too," I say and we both wince "Sorry," I tell hi over ize I feel the sa wheel until his knuckles turn white "I feel so frustrated all the ti what I need to do… but with you… I can’t seem to keepwheel and reaches for the door handle "And I need to, to protect you"

He gets out and goes into the house I followhappened, as if it didn’t feel likebecause there ether

In the kitchen, Aislin is at the table with a bunch of herbs and leaves scattered in front of her, along with soet the book?" she asks Alex as I’ot it" I hold it up and show it to her

Alex removes his jacket and sets it on the back of the chair, then puts the box of herbs and other ic stuff he picked up for Aislin on the table "How’s everything been here?"

"Everything’s been fine" She turns a page in her spell book "Jocelyn’s asleep, and Laylen’s showing Aleesa what a TV is, and I’ure out a spell that will rein the sa to bed," I say then I drag myself to my bedroo it into my pajamas as I flop down on the bed and pass out with the Foreseer book in ht Everywhere I’ht," Alex whispers, bushing my hair out of my face "I want to protect you forever, no matter what happens No matter what it costs I would die for you Gemma"

I want to tell hi with him, not because of the star, but because of a broken heart, but , one I know I have to shove down

The light flickers and the lakewith ice, and death is in the air They sky is grey, the clouds thick, the trees frosted with snow

"It’ll be alright," Alex says again and I clutch onto hiht drowns me "I’m here Gees flash throughbut ash falling from the sky and not even Alex and I survive

"Wake up Come on, open your eyes" A hand touches my arm and there’s no jolt, no spark, no warmth

My eyes shoot open and with one swiftover my bed down to the floor Then I leap to ht

"What the hell," Aislin hisses froets her feet back underneath her "Calm down Gemma, it’s just me"

I lower my fist and turn onI’ but my underwear, I pick up the blanket and wrap it arounda plaid pajama set, her hair pulled up into a ht weird noises when I ca down on the bed with the blanket wrapped around ht vision and what it couldto survive?

"Gemma, you know you can talk tobesideon all of this on your own"

"Thanks, but I’s just yet" I notice she has a bag draped over her shoulder "Are you going souilty "And you are too I mean, if you’ll help me?"

"Help you hat?" I ask interestedly

"With a spell"

"To re her spell book out of the bag and opening it to a e "I found a spell that could help… The Spell of Zaleena"

I squint down at the page There’s a drawing of a woled back, her hands spanned to the side of her, herout of it

"And you think this spell’s going to remove the Mark of Malefiscus?" I ask as she closes the book and tucks it back in her bag