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I shrugged “The whole underworld goes to hen the sun rises, apparently It’s wild out there Let’s eat, I’”

He shook his head with a be our er breakfast We’d learned at least a few useful spells during our time at FU, most notably aspell that we could use to freshen up our clothes, and a replicating spell that worked on organic substances So as long as nobody ate the last of our food supply, we could keep replicating it pretty much indefinitely

The screams continued to echo from outside for another thirty , none of us were paying any attention to theround noise

As we grabbed our gear and left the cave and headed back out into the threatening landscape beyond, it occurred to ht be aa simple, obvious truth

Our ti us all

Chapter Nineteen

Over the next several days, we grew evenscreaht, but I never could quite shake the anxious feeling of being watched It was so bad that in spite of the ridiculous a daily, I had stopped sleeping for longer than an hour or two at a time

But there was one silver lining, even in these dangerous, stressful circu closer than ever, and the five of us had turned into a functional group

I’d worried for a long ti They had been forced into each other’s lives just like they’d been forced into mine and had beco tiht that maybe I had ruined their lives, social and otherwise But the longer we traveled together, the ic on my part It eased my conscience, even if it couldn’t ease my anxiety

One day—I didn’t knohich one, I’d lost track by this point—I woke up in a panic just before daith the worst feeling of foreboding I had ever experienced I fully expected to wake up with a knife at lanced around quickly,was as I had left it when I’d gone to sleep, except that Kai had replaced Xero on watch

“Can’t sleep?” he asked, arching a brow at me

I shook ut “I feel like so”

Early linted off his black hair as he pointed into the near distance A harpy eater was silhouetted against the ugly red light of dawn He’d just caught his prey and was busy shredding it as it screamed

“Terrible things always happen here,” he said aze softened a little as he took in the lingering panic on , you’ll feel better”

I did as he suggested, but it didn’t help much I crawled back into the pile of bodies and ropedhis hands under ed me up, but it didn’t help the anxiety at all