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Call patted Havoc on the head "I should have known Master Joseph wasn’t going to kidnap you He only likes dead things and weird things"

"We’re all weird," Tamara pointed out She examined Aaron He’d used what ic without a counterweight and, although he was still standing, he looked on the verge of collapse "Well, you’re not actively bleeding anyic to check to see if you have anything sprained, or broken, or --"

"Is anyone going to talk about the fact that Call’s a Makar?" Jasper said, cutting into the discussion

Everyone looked horrified "Jasper!" said Tamara

"Oh, sorry," Jasper said "I didn’t realize ere pretending it didn’t happen" He turned to Call "Did you know you were a Makar before? Oh, wait, neveryou say"

"He didn’t know," said Alastair "Chaos ic was locked into Constantine’s body and when the body was destroyed, the chaos ic was released It must have been attracted to Call’s soul When Constantine becaer to his brother Jericho was attacked by a rogue elemental in the caverns, and Constantine -- made it disappear"

Tamara looked at him narrowly "How do you know that?" she said

"Because I was in the saroup that he was," said Alastair "There were five of us Sarah, Declan, Jericho, Constantine, and gled at hiot perfect scores on the Trials," said Jasper "Perfect scores"

"We were the best in our year," said Alastair He sounded tired and distant, like he was talking about soo

"You were friends with Constantine? Good friends?" Aaron said Despite being messy and bloody and dirty, he looked ready to defend himself, to defend them all

"He and Jericho and Sarah were roups are"

"Speaking of which," Taure out how to get this apprentice group out of here"

"Nice segue," Call ic," Alastair said, and started to walk down to the edge of the beach "Gather up soether a raft"

Suddenly, the whole beach lit up as if a spotlight had been shone on it Call staggered back, clutching his backpack, fingers digging into the straps He heard Jasper yell so above theros, and Master Rufus hovered in the air

"Dad," Call shouted, rushing to his father "They’re going to kill you -- you have to go I can try to hold theainst the wind "I deserve punish the Alkahest, but I’er --"

"CALLUM," Master Rufus said "TAMARA AARON ALASTAIR JASPER DO NOT STRUGGLE"

And with that, air swirled around Call, thickening and lifting them into the sky Despite what Master Rufus said, Call still struggled

"We must have been hidden from them by the toisteriuone, they found us"

"Don’t hurt us!" Jasper shouted "We surrender!"