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You can drag me to the underworld, but if you take away my coffee, then I’ll really be in hell

“No, it’s not the first tilanced back over her shoulder at me “But it is theelse at all, it ht just hold the key to our salvation”

I rolled ether and kept his eyes straight ahead Okay, so maybe I was the dumb fuck who didn’t realize how important this was Or maybe I just didn’t think it wouldabout the butler in the pantry with a wrench while he hadover his shoulder

“You first” Vesper pointed to me e reached the heavy door “Kai, you’ll be next Make yourself comfortable”

Toland glanced up as I entered the room behind his assistant He looked exhausted He see years by the day, and I suddenly felt an overwhele to help him I didn’t know if it was because he looked so strained and ragged, or if it was the training that Jayce had givendidn’t hit quite as an

“Tell me what you heard when you were captured While Oas carrying you over his shoulder,” Cassandra said

It came to me in bits and pieces and didn’t seem to make any sense I shook ”

“Don’t worry about that” Her song was enticing and soothing “Repeat it just as you hear it”

My brows furrowed slightly, but I let thewords up from the depths of my brain This time, I didn’t try to make sense of them I just spoke them as they came to me

“Why tread grown bellow Uptown laugh trite White up red down green left yellow right White red green yellow Up, down, left, right”

“Vesper?”

“Recording, sir”

“Continue, Piper”

“Uh—stupid si—the code, wasn’t even here—untether the school—should be h trite”

“Good That’s good What else did he say?”