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“Old tiston wondered out loud

“That would be uess,” Xero said “These little lookout posts must be all over”

“It’s a sharumbled bitterly “We could have been spared two rounds of questioning”

“Just one,” I said “I doubt they have perches like this in the basement or any of the sub-basements”

The dark-haired vaaze to Xero and Jayce “So, geniuses, you got us up here Hoe get down?”

Xero shrugged “Jump?”

“I like it here” Jayce bea spot”

“Oh, yeah, that’ll clear our na his eyes “Secret s will really take the heat off”

Jayce’s happy-go-lucky enthusiaslared at the otherout in private, Kai It’s not like there’s a ‘get out’ sign on the da”

“Look” Ignoring the tension flaring between me and Kai, Xero pointed at the floor “There’s a trap door”

“Finally, a way out” Kai tugged the door open to reveal a circular staircase He sighed “Great More fucking stairs”

“What were you hoping for? A slide?” As soon as the words were out of his mouth, Jayce’s eyes lit up “Dude, we should totally put a slide there!”

Kai blinked at him slowly, then started down the stairs without a word It took a while to make our way down them, but we discovered they led to a secret door near a secluded bookcase in the same corner of the library where we’d spenton our favorite couch and stifled a scream e spilled out of the stacks in front of her

“What the hell?” She glanced around, as if expecting more people to just appear out of thin air

“This place is hella cool” Jayce grinned broadly He seeh start to the day “Secret roolad I live here”