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“Uh—better be better in the underworld Sick of earth chicks Then I started to wake up”

It got much easier as I reported the events that’d happened while I was conscious The memories were clear and sharp, as if they’d been dusted off and polished up by Cassandra’s alluring song I filled in the rest of his hatefulcord and ot to the part where I was o step-by-step

“Your wrists were bleeding,” the siren prompted me “How severely?”

“There was a puddle” I frowned “My clothes et Cuts all over uys came”

“And they healed you?”

“No,” I said “They attacked Owen Kai released ainst the wall He was going to die”

“Go on,” the siren said

Even fro its breath

“I told the guys to get Owen out of the room before he crushed us all” Despite the cal blood racing through my veins “I went to Kai He looked dead I cried over hi now, as I told the story “I touched his face My blood got on him I tried to wipe it off, but then—it dripped into his mouth He drank from me Then he woke up”

Warht about what it had felt like to have Kai drink froes even more vivid under the siren’s spell

Jesus, what an aard time and place to be so aroused

I knew the e what I was f

eeling, but inabout it The old woman cleared her throat, and I talked a little faster

“He woke up and kissed th back It was just enough to get us back in the fight, but I was still bleeding The other three fought hard Xero and Kingston killed Owen They didn’t want to, but they had no choice He would have killed all of us, and everybody in the school”

I finished talking, and for a moment, the only sound in the roo