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Sophronia scrambled to see if she made it

But the duke was on her, his hands around her throat "Give led to his feet, nose bloodied by Monique’s heel He heard those words and then he, too, closed in, eyes desperately fixed on Sophronia’s back

One thing at a ti to shake the duke from her throat She’d dropped her fan She hadn’t any more explosives Her nails scored at the duke’s wrist

He was yelling and punctuating each ith a shake "You Are Not Perling to breathe, she would have disabused him of the notion The very idea!

Then the Chutney was on her as well

Theeach other

"It’s my parachute," yelled the duke

"Come now, Golborne" The Chutney sounded cool and reasonable "I outrank you Think of the good of the Pickles to me" He shoved at the duke’s face with one hand while with his other he tried to rip the pack from Sophronia’s back

The ship lurched

Any nite She had no idea how fierce an explosion that would be, or how it ht affect the decks above and below But now that Monique had provided her a inal plan had been to run to the ed part of the school The whole point was that they crash down on the belly of that section, on top of the hold full ofthem in one place for the authorities to find as proof of the Pickleht now, the parachute felt like a ot a look up into the sky, or rather doard the ground It was hard to tell in the dark, but it certainly looked like the lights were getting closer They were falling faster than they had been

Then there ca Sophronia had ever heard before, hu hit the Chutney full force and landed atop hi him backward

Professor Braithwope’s lips were stretched wide, his fangs i His mouth seemed to split his head in two--a black maw slashed with sharp pointed death Above it the mustache was all spiky menace

The Chutney screamed, "You can’t! You can’t! We haven’t been introduced!" But the vampire was beyond introductions He bit down on the an to suck

Sophronia had only a briefto get one arm around her neck while the other tore at the pack on her back