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Millard hesitated for a rab for him but missed, and Millard’s footsteps curved away in a trail of divots

Benthahtened his un on Miss Peregrine

"Now listen to uards go!"

They had little choice but to do as he asked Sharon and his cousins released their collared wights and backed away, and the wight who’d been standing on our side of the bridge lowered his hands and picked his gun up off the ground Within seconds the balance of power had been reversed couns airine Caul could do what he wanted

"Boy!" he said, pointing at me "Pitch that hollow into the chasm!" His shrill voice a needle in e of the chasm

"Now make him leap!"

It seemed I didn’t have a choice It was an aaste, but perhaps just as well: the holloas suffering badly now, its wounds leaking black blood that flowed around its feet It wouldn’t have survived

I unwrapped its tongue froth had returned enough forfast As soon as I was off its back it bellowed softly, sucked its tongues back into itssacrifice

"Thank you, whoever you were," I said "I’ht, you wouldn’t have been a completely evil one"

I put my foot on its back and pushed The hollow tumbled forward and dropped silently into the misty void After a few seconds, I felt its consciousness disappear froe rode over to our side on the hollow’s tongues, Miss Peregrine’s life threatened again if I interfered Olive was yanked out of the sky The guards set about herding us into a tight and easily controllable cluster Then Caul shouted for ed me out

"He’s the only one we really need alive," Caul said to his guards "If you must shoot him, shoot hiun toward the tightly packed crowd and fired There were screaed "Shoot thehed and twirled with his arms poised like a squat ballerina I was about to run at hi out his eyes with -barreled revolver appeared front and center in uard, a wight with broad shoulders and a shiny bald head