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The yellow spot started toelse appeared It looked like a floating piece of sunny fabric A glare? A solar spot? He’d finally lost his ever-loving mind?

He squinted, focusing on the object and blocking out all other distractions The truth hit hiolden speck wasn’t clothing, it was a bill Finally, a stroke of good luck

Jax ducked down beneath the cloud cover “You’ll never guess what is right outside”

“Hungry zombies?”

“Very funny, Veronica” He didn’t even try to stop his grin fro exciteoose that lays the golden eggs”

“How do you know it’s the right one? I’lanced down at Antoine, as right below her on the beanstalk “Ideas?”

A cool breeze whipped Antoine’s white hair around his round head, revealing an angr

y red scar near his hairline He flattened his lips and his blue eyes took on an arctic quality as he returned Veronica’s query with silence

Jax’s muscles tensed and his senses went on full alert The Celtic knot his ainst his chest A Zayl witch, his ht her to infuse it with the power to warn hier

The last time the charht as he was about to dive into a freshwater lagoon tea with va for their next ravity could draw hiuide, Sharmel, hadn’t The mermaids had sucked Sharmel dry before Jax could even pull his Bowie knife from the sheath

There sure as hell weren’t any mermaids in cloud country, but that didn’tthe number one, two and three top slots on the list of most likely to kill him

Below Jax on the beanstalk, Antoine blinked When he opened his eyes, a look of resignation replaced his icy glare “I’d love to say I am one hundred percent certain, but as we all learned yesterday, an overabundance of caution is never a bad thing when one cliic beanstalk”

He could say that twice Though Jax was packing enough metal to knock a troll on his fat ass, he couldn’t shake the idea he’dimportant

“I don’t know Sorip on the vines “How is the goose even still alive with all the brain-dead rotting corpses wandering around?”

“Excellent point,” Veronica said