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"So I’ve been thinking about how you got here," Eot back to the present"

"Okay," I said "What do you think?"

"There’s only one explanation that h not bloody round tunnels with all those wights, and we crossed back into the present, the reason you cahteen-whatever-it-was, suddenly alone, was that Miss Peregrine was there so it"

"I don’t know, E to be harsh "You think she was hiding in the tunnel?"

"I’ it’s possible We’ve no idea where she was"

"The wights have her Caul adhts say?"

"You’ve gother, I figured he was probably telling the truth"

"Maybe … or he said it to crush our spirits andto convince us to surrender to his soldiers, re to kink froument that Miss P ith us in the tunnel Why would she have gone to the trouble of sending hts? We were on our way to have our second souls sucked out I would’ve been better off stuck in that loop"

For a enuinely stumped Then her face lit up and she said, "Unless you and I are supposed to rescue everyone else Maybe it was all part of her plan"

"But how could she have knoould escape the wights?"

Elance at Addison "Maybe she had help," she whispered

"E really unlikely" I took a breath, choosing rine is out there so over us I do, too …"

"I want that so badly, it hurts," she said

"But if she were free, wouldn’t she have contacted us so toward Addison, "wouldn’t he have mentioned it by now?"

"Not if he’s sworn to secrecy Perhaps it’s too dangerous to tell anyone, even us If we knew Miss Peregrine’s whereabouts, and soht break under torture …"

"And he wouldn’t?" I said a little too loudly, and the dog looked up at us, his cheeks ballooning and tongue flapping ridiculously as the wind caught them "Ho, there!" he cried "I’ve counted fifty-six fish already, though one or two ed rubbish What are you thispering about?"