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Or… not

“She told hi told him!”

“Oh, Sonja, no…”

It caht then that I couldn’t go back to Xero Not now, not unless I wanted to bring hi but rubble The horde that’d attacked us the first ti now Thethe school Hundreds of the fla the cavern with toxic smoke

Witch deons bathed the school in fire Six one-eyed giants battered at the walls with their e of the castle, searching for cracks and open s to crawl through The school wouldn’t survive er

“We can slip in the e left,” I said gri up as et to Xero But he would never forgive me if I left the school to be destroyed like this “Then straight down to the sub-sub-basement”

The monsters paid us no attention We weren’t part of their plan, and we couldn’t have looked very threatening Filthy fro but sis full of salvation

I hope

We helped each other back through theas quickly as possible, cringing as the battering clubs made little flecks of rock rain down on our heads

Please let the Temple Stones work Please

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Once inside the castle, we scras up on our shoulders Kai took the extra bag We hadn’t gone ten feet before Hannah barreled out of a doorith Professor Shen, Toland, and a couple of fourth-year students on her heels

“I set alarms,” she said breathlessly “For portals I’ but I waited a week just to be sure—”

“You got the stones?” Toland interrupted

“Yes All of them You know the spells?”