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Eafter us He sto voice: "ALMA, COME BACK HERE!"

Caul raised his awful hands Sorine and Emma away from , ten feet off the ground, until Caul flipped his palain Quick as a bounced ball, they slammed back to earth

"I’LL GRIND YOU BETWEEN MY TEETH!" Caul howled, starting across the cavern toward them, his every footfall an earthquake

Adrenaline, it seeine no crueler death sentence than this: to spendthe wo bark, and so rine ran They had no choice To co out of the corridor Kids and yers, too Addison must have led the froainst I wished I could warn the it, just run--but they wouldn’t have listened tobeast and threw all they had at it The gallows men pitched their ham back and letting it go like a shot-put Sohts, which they fired at Caul The y hihtest effect on him The bullets bounced off He batted away the chunk of wall He caught the haiant teeth and spat thenats, the ymbrynes seemed merely to irritate hiers, the little feeder roots that dangled froht his pal his head were pushed away, and all the peculiars were sether and folded the a piece of paper The yround in a spherical crush of lis I was the only one left alone (except Benthaet up, to stand and do so, but I could only liftpulverized, their terrified screaht that was it, that in a moment blood would pour from them like juice from a squeezed fruit, but then one of Caul’s hands flew up and began to flap in front of his face, waving soh’s bees had flown out of the crush and now they were in Caul’s eyes, stinging hi howl The yround, the ball they’d for out everywhere They hadn’t been crushed, thank God

Miss Peregrine, screeching and flapping in bird form, pulled people to their feet and propelled theed off for Caul He had dealt with the bees and was again spreading his arainst a wall Before he could, Miss Peregrine dive-bombed him with her talons and raked deep cuts across his face He spun to take a lu her so hard she flew across the rooround, where she lay motionless

By the time he turned back to deal with the others, they had nearly disappeared into the corridor Caul extended his palm toward them, closed his hand and scooped it back--but they were farther away, apparently, than his powers of telekinesis would reach Bellowing in frustration, he ran after thele into the corridor after theht squeeze

That’s when, finally, I saw Bentham He had rolled into the channel of water to hide, and noas cli wet but otherwise unaffected He was bent over, his back to --I couldn’t see what

I felt like I was co I tried to move my arms--an experiment--and found that I could I slid the to find a couple of holes and a lot of blood But I was dry Instead of holes, my hands found a piece of metal flattened like a coin I closed my hands around it, picked it up to look

It was a bullet It had not piercedThe bullet had embedded itself in my scarf

The scarf Horace had knit for me

He had known, somehow, that this would happen and had made me this scarf from the wool of peculiar sheep Thank God for Horace …

I saw so flash across the room and liftedwith his eyes ablaze, cones of hot white light bea and I heard a tinkle of glass

He’d taken a vial of ath to turn onto an to sit up Bentha up at the jars He was studying each one carefully

As if he could see them

And then I realized what he’d done, what he’d taken He’d been saving randfather’s stolen soul all these years, and now he’d consumed it

He could see the jars He could do what I did

I was on round Pulled one foot underI was back, risen from the dead