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"We’re here to save you!" Olive crowed "Like you saved us!"

"And I’o? You’ll start aging forward!"

"Didn’t you read…"

"My parents took thelared at , you know! In any case, there’s nothing to worry about Wediscovery," I heard Millard say "All thanks to Perplexus It tookBentha which tied forward But he didn’t What’s ain! That’s when I realized so had happened to hie had been reset When the ymbrynes collapsed the loop, it wound back his clock, so to speak, so that his body was exactly as old as it looked, rather than his actual age of five hundred and seventy-one"

"And it wasn’t just Perplexus’s clock that got wound back," Emma said excitedly, "but all of ours! Everyone as in Abaton that day!"

"Apparently it’s a side effect of loop collapse," Miss Peregrine said "An extreerous Fountain of Youth"

"So this e forward? Ever?"

"Well, no faster than you!" Ehed "One day at a ti to take it all in "Are you sure I’rine

"Can we stay a while, Jacob?" said Claire, bouncing up to ured we’d rine said before I could reply "The children know al of the twenty-first century, and besides, this house looks much more comfortable than Bentham’s drafty old rat-trap How many bedrooms?"

"Um … we have five, I think?"

"Yes, that’ll do That’ll do just fine"

"But what about lanced at the car and waved a hand "Your uncles can be memory-wiped with ease As for your parents, I believe the cat’s out of the bag, as they say They’ll have to be watched closely for a tiht ’round to our way of seeing things, it’s the parents of the great Jacob Portreat Abraham Portman!" said Em at us frorine "As I do Jacob"