“The bodies are gone?” I said with a snap of my tongue. “Where did they go?”
We’d been robbed! I looked up, the confusion cracking and hatching a quintet of questions. How? When? Who? Where? Why?
serious.”
nothing at all to do with this! At all!” My frills flared and my wings unfurled before I folded them back up.
I didn’t do it. Why couldn’t he see that?
busy chatting with that weird gemstone wiver,” I said, pointing at my glaring friend. While she was talking with that wiver about crysts or whatever, I’d wandered off to find a book stall, that’s all. All I wanted was up-to-date astronomical tables. Hinte would have been busy awhile.
wouldn’t think of it right now. I had just been relaxing in the shadow of some alleyway, my mind caressing the figures in the book???—??and then they’d come. I didn’t want to think of about how the plan might be changing. Everything was already wuthering out of control.
Which stall, Hinte-ychy?” Adwyn hadn’t looked away from Hinte. His voice had grown another kind of urgency.
someone in the administration is behind this.” Citrusface is up to something. Thanks, Staune.
indirectly. The G?ren house is more likely, but there’s still the matter of their knowing when to spy. Which all again raises the possibility of someone betraying us.” Adwyn’s gaze roamed over us, me most of all, seeming even more analyzing than ever.
collapsed on my bed last night out of sheer tiredness. And then I roused and went to Hinte’s house first thing. And then I went to work until it was time to meet you. There was no room for these schemes. I certainly couldn’t’ve planned this out now while being in your sight???—??almost???—??the entire time!”
do need to figure out who betrayed us. They had to be at the G?ren’s house. It wasn’t Kinri or me, at all.”???—??I grinned, and Hinte glared???—??“Maybe it was that Ushra guy. He seems plenty creepy.”
they suspect anyone in the administration who would do this?”
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