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"Thank you," I said "Thatthat really means a lot"

Kiyo arched an eyebrow "You care about hi his eyes "Even ere , we’ve always been there for each other"

Until those words left my mouth, I hadn’t realized hoerful they were When Kiyo and I had disagreed on things, it had alain nature of our relationship, and its eventual degradation into way off I’d noted in Alabas ith Evanhow peaceful and easy And they were--because we never disagreed He never contradicted , but I wasn’t sure it was a realistic thing Of course it’s easy to like so united with sos you don’t want to hear That’s how Dorian and I had always been With very few exceptions, we’d alorked as a strong team, even when totally pissed off at each other

If Kiyo knew the thoughts churning within y "The trick’s got to be in the ti hih tiure out the key to the enchanth," I warned "That bitch wants to execute hio by either" Kiyo glanced at the small"And you don’t have much of a sense of the sun here either That ’s really not good for--wait The falcon We’ll send Alea’s falcon"

"Spots?" I asked

"That’s his name?" Kiyo asked incredulously

"You have cats na with Spots?"

Kiyo shook his head, having no ti anyway I’ll o in to rescue Dorian So, when the falcon arriveswait, oh, tento get with our limited options Kiyo and I hashed out asvery specific directions on how to get to the palace’s lower levels from here We talked until we finally heard ain and crawled onto the plate, just in time for me to put the lid down and hand the covered tray to the servant doing cleanup Kiyo had see out of the kitchens, so I had to trust him from there

The servant swapped the tray for a new one, which I realized was for my midday meal already Ti at the walls Once I was alone again, though, I recalled Varia’s comment that every minute I delayed ood part of the day had gone by, and asif she’d be calling h, with no word froed her et worried for a whole other set of reasons The light co in mystill told ood on his word to rescue Dorian, he needed to act soon before the "dinner show"

A flutter of wings in theht next to h s were finally about to get

"Showti, which again had a tiny scroll affixed to it I removed the scroll and found when I unrolled it that it had a lot e As such, it was nearly i had been required to contain it all After e One was that all was in place, and I could commence with the plan The other was that the objects’ protective enchantment could be weakened by an incantation spoken by so a considerable a, was also listed

"Seems awfully easy," I muttered "Too easy" Conscious of the time, I retrieved ot him up to speed on the latest developments and showed hireed

"Could my friends have been misled? Maybe their so-called Yew dissidents lied"

"This is the language of a Yew spell," said Volusian "So that much is accurate, "

"Well, that’s a proble procedure here I put the scroll inThe clock’s ticking and--"