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John’s breath sucked in

Our eyes uts roiled The lunch I had threatening to make a reappearance

A bunch of sether

Buddy ran into the dojo, took one look at the Graysheets and said, "Don’t do it She wasn’t going to say anything Call it off," he said, his eyes frantic

Archer turned to hinored Lewis

"Stay out of this You’ve been coet I told Parker you were the wrong fit, Buddy"

I looked over at who I’d thought was Buddy Taking in his stature, as a guy It was so obvious now that he was older If I’d been paying attention, I would’ve seen it right away

Of course, someone had

Gra And I’d fought hi hi to kill the girls

I looked at the car again, Jade sleeping safely inside

Then I looked at Sensei

The connection cauts up

Sleeping safely inside my locked car, Sensei was the attacker He was behind locked bars

Asleep

My e of Sophie collapsed on the asphalt outside the dojo, then paused over the bundle that was Jade Inher face except for the tip of her nose

Sensei Anderson was the Astral Projection attacker He was currently protected by six armed Graysheets, I didn’t have any dead at uish pierceda brutal pathway up my throat

Jade

Jade burrowed under the scratchy blanket that was in the back of the car, the seat’s tight configuration a perfect ee of her consciousness She heard the door locks snap into place and gave a small smile at Caleb’s over protectiveness She made a show for him but it secretly pleased her that he cared about her so much She just didn’t want him to feel like he had to He was an aweso She ith Sophie, they were kinda scary Their eyes especially

Jade’s breathing beca away, her body using the deep slu session she’d just coain

Jade awoke in space filled hiteness and looked around She had never felt e, the perimeter of where she was cloud-like, the walls a soft, billowy material She was in a cotton ball world What a weird drea dress draped her, in the deepest e fine webbing of jet black stones that sparkled like dia it, sparkling above a green sea It reminded her of her dream catcher at home Her hand flew to her neck autoift fro jeweled rainbow from the softest black to a deep onyx that rode her s the bone on the left It slid back and forth over the bu, the fabric felt like satin but hung like silk, a high heeled shoe peeking out fro black

Her pulse sped up So The quality of the dreas she wore, bizarre She reached out to touch the wall and an e her breath

This was not a dream

This was realht to be in realm That was for Astral Projectionists Not Empaths

Unless Jade looked around frantically, her hair co against the skin of her back, tickling her

Her eyes locked on a forh the wall, slowly revealed to her as if hidden by own in direct contrast to the coffee kissed color of her skin Jade’s eyes locked with hers and she knew that Sophie realized instantly that soown and ran to Jade, her silver spiked heelsno noise in real here?" Sophie asked breathlessly, clutching Jade’s aronna ask you I fell asleep in Caleb’s car and woke up here" Jade spread her hands away fro away from her

"Why am I in real to still the treether

Sophie shook her head, her fluffy hair tightly contained in an elaborate up do, a few tendrils clinging tenaciously to the back of her neck Jade watched Sophie think about it Then slowly, she turned her forearry puncture became visible

Jade and Sophie looked at each other "The depressant," Sophie began slowly Jade shrugged, she’dsession "I was given the three ht " Sophie’s eyes ave you a different dose," Jade said

"A different kind," Sophie eave you so specifically that was different than the normal dose? That would make you sleep and allow realm at the same time?"

Sophie looked at Jade "That would overnment That Amanda as a victiet Buddy interrupted hi within her in an ugly spiral

Sophie’s aqua eyes searched Jade’s green ones "Why a Sophie’s hands

From behind them they heard a male’s voice say, "It’s a twofer, that’s why"

They turned and Jade was stunned beyond words, heropen

Caleb’s judo instructor stood there in an absurd looking white tuxedo The bow tie and cummerbund were a deep scarlet

Like splashes of blood on his clothes

Sophie and Jade backed away, the fingers of their hands entwined together like two fragile insects caught in a web

The spider came

Caleb

Sensei Anderson had to die The bars of the closet locked froate that necessity

So he would kill Jade and Sophie Because Sophie had seen a foreign leader ed document as a zombie She itness Okay

Jade because why?

I pressed ritted teeth asked, "Why Jade?"