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Cassie went hoo over all her notes on the locator spell Constance had taught them Since she’d never actually performed the spell, the details of hoorked were fuzzy in her es, but as far as Cassie could tell, the spell was intended to locate lost objects Nowhere had she written about using the spell to find a lost person

Just then there was a knock on her front door It was Adaured I’d find you here," he said, following Cassie to her bedroo the Circle," she said "I wanted to do some research"

"I know You’re off the hook anyway - everyone went hoather stuff for the spell" He plopped down on Cassie’s bed, beckoning her to join hiood ti her notes between the to work on a person?" she asked "I didn’t realize it’s actually a spell to find yourcar keys"

Adam removed the notes frohtstand "It ht not work," he said "But it’s possible it will These spells can be used to said "But it’s possible it will These spells can be used to find lost people if those people really want to be found" Cassie felt her shoulders settle a bit There was no question that Scarlett wanted to be found "But what if the hunters don’t want her to be found?" she asked

Adauess is the hunters do want to be found, because they want us to go to them" Then his eyes filled with re Scarlett alive, Cassie Otherwise they would have killed her outright

We will find her I proht She kissed hiet through this without you"

"Luckily you don’t have to," he said, as he went in for a kiss For just a ain

After school that afternoon, the Circle gathered under the bleachers just before the track-in But Faye was nowhere to be found Searching the bleachers for her, Cassie and Laurel weren’t surprised to find that she wasn’t alone

Crowds had filled in the bleachers on all sides of Faye and Max, but they hadn’t noticed Max was kissing her neck as Faye ran her nails down the length of his torso and tugged at his jeans like a hungry ani off Max," Laurel said "But I guess once the love spell was done, it was done" Cassie nodded "But Faye’s not under a spell, so what’s her excuse?"

"She’s Faye," Laurel said

Cassie noticed Portia walking toward theh-collared blouse that was the same shade as her straw-colored hair

"Here comes trouble," Cassie said

"Will you tell your disgusting friend to go get a room?" Portia shouted "This is a track led "Portia’s right I think theythe children"

She turned to Cassie "Do you want to go douse them with some ice water, or should I?"

Portia half-smiled "Thank you, Laurel I always knew you were theat Cassie, Portia added, "Though the bar’s been set pretty low"

"I’ll take care of it," Cassie said, already walking away

She’d take any excuse to escape Portia

Laurel and Portia continued talking for a few minutes while Cassie did her best to pry Faye away fro her?" All the coolness had been sucked out of hiood-bye, Max," Cassie insisted "Faye has to go now"

Faye struggled to cop one last feel of hiers across his chiseled face "Be a good boy and stay here," she said "And later you’ll get a reward"

Max’s strong features softened with boyish delight "Do you promise?" he said

Faye blew a kiss in response as Cassie dragged her down below the bleachers

Once they were safely away from him, Cassie shook her head "I can hardly believe that’s the same Max" Faye smiled "If you saw him with his shirt off, you’d believe it"

Below the bleachers, the Circle was al the locator spell Suzan and Sean stuck candles into the ground: one north, one south, one east, and one west Nick ignited the wicks with his brass Zippo

Melanie tapped Cassie on the shoulder "Excuse ot censers to light"

"Won’t they s to the bleacher crowd above

"No," Melanie replied, while clearing the ground’s energy

"It’s only jas soin?" Diana called out, eyeing Cassie

She’d taken Cassie aside after cheShe tried to explain her position, that she wished to save Scarlett as much as Cassie did, but she had to balance that ith her responsibility to the Circle It isn’t personal, she’d said

Cassie assured Diana she understood But it was personal

That’s what nobody seenize To Cassie this was all very personal

The sound of their schoolun

"We’re ready as we’ll ever be," Laurel said

The group sat in a circle surrounding the candles as Diana instructed theoblet of water within the circle

"Everyone invoke the eleoblet, i it contained the whole ocean, so blue and cold and deep that if she tried to stick her fingers inside it to reach its bottom, she never would

"Power of Water, I beseech you," Diana said And then, together as a group, the Circle softly repeated the incantation four times

That which is lost shall now be found

Hiding places cooblet as Diana called out, "Let the water show the location of Scarlett"

At first there was nothing, just solass The crowd above their heads cheered and rose to their feet, and the water stirred It took a few seconds for it to go still again, but when it did, Cassie noticed her own reflection in the water beco more pronounced The shape of her own face, her round eyes and pouting htened she looked to herself, how desperate But soon that faded away and a new ied, with equal clarity It was a broken-down house - the same house as the one in her dream, except now she could really see it, not just sense it

It was a rickety beach cottage, in what Cassie recognized as the classic Cape Cod style It sat near the end of a long, desolate, sandy lane, with a large body of water on one side and tidal marshes on the other

I know this place, Cassie thought, but in the nextelse

What was it?

The i slowly, but she could swear it was a loaf of bread Then the loaf separated into slices

Maybe she was just hungry, because as quickly as that i else: It was the face of a man who appeared to be from the 1800s He had bushy eyebrows and a thick nized this man, too, but froed one last time - to a number It flashed for only a second, almost too quickly to catch, but it was 48 It appeared to Cassie like a numbered white ball plucked from a lottery Then the water blackened and became still