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"Is that your assignment?" she asked

Brilliant Thank you, Frosty "Yep That’s my project" We had to do an unusual translation of our choosing Most girls probably weren’t even thinking about runes yet, so ironically, this et ursson "I’ it up now"

Finally, she turned to face lad to hear you’re still working on it"

"What’s that supposed to mean?"

"Itslowly, like I was hard of hearing or so?" My jaw clenched as I snatched the paper to study it How had I gotten the runes wrong when I hadn’t even been the one to write the Those runes you wrote…they’re ridiculous"

"What do youcliffside, for chrissake Not that I could tell her that

"Well, I’ve done several of these translations now"

"Hoesome for you"

"Thanks," she said with a priht my sarcasm Apparently, irony wasn’t in Frost’s little toolbox "I hate to tell you, but what you’ve written there is gibberish"

"Gibberish?" I’d just translated it before the gyh

"Yes You know, gibberish Nonsense" Her eyes lit, like she was about to win so She adjusted herself in her chair, looking eager to rub"What do you think you wrote?"

Screw rooirl was a freak, and I didn’t like herin et back intoto busy myself with some papers "It says ‘Sonja, ruled by vaht" She scooted from her desk and headed over to mine "Don’t worry It’s to be expected you’d er down the spine of the special book/hiding place Carden had given me "This edition has been out of print since the forties Where’d you even get it?"

"It was a gift" I stared at her stubby fingers with their chewed-off nails "Don’t touch it"

She recoiled like I’d accused her of intellectual slu "As if"

I sensed her about to return to her desk, but I was too curious now Ta down my frustration, I turnedcrazy? I translated the a wavy line under them, I muttered, "‘Vampíru drottinn…Sonja, ruled by vampires’ I don’t see the problem"

"The problem is, your runes suck Maybe you’d have seen that if it weren’t for the fact that your translation sucks even more"

"Okay," I said slowly I knew the runes weren’t messed up, because Sonja, whoever she was, had written the herself runically, then it was a safe freaking assu "Let’s start withit’s wrong?"

She shrugged, acting coy A snitty little look like triuly sound, and not being a giggly girl, it sounded reallyangrier by the second, until the treelike shapes started to blur in my vision

I sounded out, "Vampíru…drottinn…Sonja Sonja," I emphasized firlare up at her "Right?"

"Well, what you have there doesn’t say that" With a s her hand on ut

She shifted closer and I got a whiff Ick The girl sed away, ever so subtly "A little space, please?"

Frost ignoredoff on full lecture mode "If ‘Sonja, ruled by vaain fro and rewrite the runes"

"Let’s just translate what I have here, shall we?"