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The hollow leapt to its feet, nearly buckinggun We burst froe, my friends and our y war cry, not so hts as to tear down the fear that was clawing at hts balked, and for aor stop and shoot at us That bought the hollow and round that separated us

It didn’t take long for the wights to uns at us like a firing squad, and let loose a volley of bullets They whizzed aroundupit hadn’t been hit anywhere vital, I sank low to shieldits tongues like extra legs to speed us on

The hollow and I closed the reap in just a few seconds,hand-to-hand, and the advantage was ours While I concentrated on knocking the guns out of the wights’ hands,her hands like flahts Bronwyn hurled the bricks she’d gathered, then punched and puh’s lone bee had recently made some friends, and as he cheered them on ("Go for the eyes, fellows!") they swirled around and dive-bombed our enemy wherever they could So did the yunshots Miss Peregrine was , but even s one wight’s hair and pecking his head hard enough to --which allowed Claire to leap up and bite him on the shoulder with her wide, sharp-toothed back fros and knives for arhts’ ankles All the while, Olive shouted advice to us froun, Hugh!"

Despite all our peculiar ingenuity, however, ere outnu as if their lives depended on it--which likely they did

Soun--and I hung li around round It was chaos, awful bloody chaos, and the wights were beginning to take theus back

And then, fro, I looked and saw Bentharih the Panloopticon the sa up next to me "In need of soain, the bullet passing through the side of its neck and grazing h my torn pants

"Yes, please!" I shouted

"PT, you heard the boy!" Benthaiant paws and knocking wights aside like they were bowling pins One ran up and shot PT point-blank in the chest with a sun The bear seeht and sent hiether, we had the wights on the defensive When we’d picked off enough of them that it became clear they were outnumbered, their ranks whittled to no more than ten, they took off and ran

"Don’t let thehts on foot, on wing, on bearback and hollowback We chased theround stippled with catapulted rodents froate built into the loorine screahts She pulled one off his feet by the back of his neck, but this, and h’s bees, only rowing andblack fluid froate’s iron portcullis rising as they neared it

"Stop theate, Sharon and his unruly crowd e! There was still another hollowgast left--the one inside the bridge If I could get control of hi

But no They were already through the gate, running up the bridge, and I was hopelessly behind By the tie hollow had already picked up and tossed five of the Street, where only a thin crowd of ah to stop thehts who hadn’t yet crossed were stuck at the bridge gap, waiting their turn to be flung

As e, I felt the bridge hollow cohts and lifting them across

Stop, I said aloud in Hollow

Or at least that’s what I thought I said, though ot lost in translation, and maybe stop sounds a lot like drop in hollowspeak Because rather than stopping hts back to our side of the bridge, the hollow sie!)