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    "You do know these guys?" Luke asked, to which I nodded.


    "This is Jason," I said. "We all met when Enzo and Jason''s team yed a hockey game a few towns over a while back."


    Luke looked at Jason and his team suspiciously, but Jason just ran a hand through his hair andughed nervously.


    "I hope we didn''t freak you guys out by showing up here unannounced," he said. "But we had toe. I mean, with the Crescents doing what they''re doing..."


    "I thought you were a Crescent," Enzo said. "You''re not a spy, right?"


    Jasonughed again and shook his head. "Not a spy. I left the Crescentspletely and formed my own pack. Actually, a lot of people left the Crescents when they started turning people into rogues against their will. And when we heard that you guys developed an antidote that''s really been helping people, we knew that we had toe and join in the fight."


    My eyes widened at this. Enzo and I shot each other a look. Luke still looked entirely skeptical, and just folded his arms across his chest and looked at Jason warily.


    "I mean, if you''ll have us," Jason said. "We''d like to help. But if you guys don''t trust us, I get it. We were Crescents at one point, after all."? 2024 N?v/el/Dram/a.Org.


    "Just give us a moment," Luke suddenly chimed in. He grabbed both Enzo and I by our sleeves with an


    unprecedented amount of strength for a skinny guy who was actually an undead skeleton in disguise, and pulled us a little ways away.


    Once we were further away, Luke looked at both of us with concern written across his face. "You two really trust these guys?" he asked, lowering his voice. "They used to be Crescents."Cóntent belongs to NovélDráma. Org


    "So?" I asked. "You tried to throttle me the first time I met you. Or did you forget?"


    Luke''s face went red and he fell silent.


    "Luke is right, though," Enzo said. "We should be wary of any outsiders right now. But... We did form a strong bond with them before, and we could use the help. Plus, if they know how the Crescents are operating, it could be extremely useful.


    I nodded at this, and threw a nce at Jason and the others over my shoulder. Jason gave me a friendly wave. "Let''s do it," I said.


    When we returned to Jason and the others, we told them that we would dly let them join our little army; under one condition.


    "Tell us anything you know about the Crescents," I said. "And swear you won''t omit anything. We''re putting our trust in you here."


    Jason nodded. "dly," he said.


    A little whileter, all of us were walking back to the athletic fields together. Jason and his hockey team joined our little army, and gave us a lot of crucial information along with it.


    "So, Lewis joined the Crescents?" Enzo asked, speaking angrily through his teeth. "That little weasel." Jason nodded. "But he''s not respected. And even though he and a few of his followers joined the Crescents, there are way more ex-Crescents who left because they don''t agree with everything that''s going on. And a lot of those people are headed here, to join forces with you guys." Jason stopped then, and looked directly at me with intense sincerity. "You''re famous, Nina," he said. "Word has spread that you''re the one who created the antidote that''s


    saving people. You have a lot of allies; all you need to do is give the order, and you have an entire army at yourmand."


    I swallowed and looked up at Enzo. I was nomander... Enzo was, though.


    And between Enzo''s Alphamand and my antidote, maybe we really could take down the Crescents.