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"You’ll have to wait," Addison growled "No one leaves until the ymbrynes do"

Finally they unclasped their hands and broke their circle

"That’s it?" E toward us "Let’s be on our way We don’t want to be here fifty-four seconds fro a crack was splitting open in the ground, the clay falling away into a quickly widening sinkhole from which a loud, alun

In spite of exhaustion and broken bodies and faltering steps, we ran, pushed faster by terror and awful, apocalyptic noises--and by the giant, luround that was splitting open, down ancient stairways that crumbled beneath our feet, back into the first house we’d exited fro walls, and finally into the passageway that led back to Caul’s tower

Miss Peregrine herded us through, the passageway disintegrating around us, and then out the other side, into the tower I looked back to see the passage cave in behind us, a giant fist srine, frantic: "Where’s the door gone? We must close it, or the collapse may spread beyond this loop!"

"Bronwyn kicked it in!" Enoch tattled "It’s broken!"

She’d been the first to reach it and, for Brownyn, kicking down the door had been faster than turning its knob "I’m sorry!" she cried "Have I dooun to spread to the tower It swayed, spilling us from one side of the hall to the other

"Not if we can escape the tower," Miss Peregrine said

"We’re too high!" cried Miss Wren "We’ll never make it to the bottom in tih I wasn’t sure why I said it, because leaping to our deaths see tower

"Yes!" cried Olive "We’ll jump!"

"Absolutely not!" Miss Wren said "We ymbrynes would be just fine, but you children …"

"I can float us!" Olive said "I’h!"

"No way!" Enoch said "You’re tiny, and there are tootiles crashed down around us and cracks spidered through the floor

"Fine, then!" Olive said "Stay behind!"