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“It still connects to earth,” he said, tapping at the screen a few times “See?”

“What?” I shot upright on the bed so fast my head spun “You have internet access?!”

“More than that It can ht it with me when I came to Fallen University I’ve stayed in contact with my business associates this whole time”

“But—how?!”

“It’s enchanted—” he began, but I cut him off

“No, not that part I ed to keep this a secret for so long? You’ve been interrogated twice! And not by soical team!”

His son, Piper And this isis, the ee, Charles, connects to spells Those are all warm or cold talents, you see”

I totally didn’t see, but I nodded anyway so he would continue

“As a dragon, I don’t have any guilt over guardingI can do it voluntarily or through direct interference, but if they don’t know it’s there, they can’t interfere directly It’s fail proof”

My ain “That’s incredible”

“Yes, it is,” he said proudly “The point, though, is that the phone is enchanted to connect to anywhere froh any barrier Even into a different dimension Which means we still have a lifeline to earth”

I opened h I could tell he was growing on, after all And just like he’d said, this was his most valuable treasure

Holding the phone with o or brand, but the black casing was unmarked

“Where did you get it?” I asked

He cleared his throat “You kno I said I hopped on a private jet and went to Africa to meet with the shaman after I was turned?”