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"No," I say "It’s that … I saw hirove At least, I think it was him--he looks different so his hand from o back there again, did you?"

"No, he was here He was inoff Tobin is even darker than it was after we found Pear "What’s his name?" he asks "Do you know his name?"

"Haden," I say "I think it was Haden Lord"

Tobin takes in a sharp breath

I look down at my iPad "Like I said, I’m not a hundred percent positive it’s the same…"

But Tobin storms off before I finish my sentence

Chapter twenty-three

HADEN

"What the Tartarus is that?" Garrick asks, his eyes enlarged with horror as he looks from it to me and then back to it

"Harpies if I know," I say underthe room for a certain face to scrutinize the alien mass in front of me

"Gods, it smells almost as bad as it looks" Garrick picks up his knife and poses as if he is about to prod the glistening mass with the point of the blade He hesitates and then pulls the knife back "II don’t want to touch it, either, but it wouldn’t bode well for me to show any hesitancy so early inat a far table, and then scan the faces of the people who stand in line at the opposite end of the room Where is she? Have I lost track of Daphne already?

I’d hung back and watched her leave the classroo, but had lost her trail in the hallway It is impossible to make out one person’s scent in the cacophony of body odors and strange perfumes that permeate this place I don’t kno these humans can stand it The smell is even worse here in the cafeteria

As are the sounds and sights that assault htness that floods in through the long rows of s above the tables makes my eyes burn How am I supposed to locate Daphne in all of this chaos? How am I supposed to observe her if I can barely see?

I pull lasses out of my jacket pocket and shove thelasses indoors in public ht make me look like a "creeper"

Creep Daphne had called rove Does she still think ofclass, and I can’t help feeling like a dung spout for the things I’d said to her

I worry et a girl to like irl over, I had to beher, contradicting her, or acting like a "bad boy," which I gatherback in estive

So why do I feel like I am in an even worse place with her now than before?