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Kahts, but there hadn’t been a wall during the kiss So everything was evenwas always more complicated because of this terrible link
Kaled that even he wasn’t sure which one was prevalent, jealousy or anger or confusion, as he recognized that she’d responded to the kiss Kami did not knohat to say to hiain Kaers of shadow creep in, like the shadow of a giant’s hand As she watched, everything the shadow touched was consumed by its darkness
Jared! Kami screamed silently She backed away and the darkness ca pieces of the corridor in sharp hungry gulps It was as though Ka at it with a vast pair of scissors
Ka in her throat She knew Jared was co, but he was sure to come too late Her back met the cold wall, and she felt Jared reach for her in his ave her a ht of facing Rosalind across a sea of flying glass She thought of how she had felt seeing the aosaginohi, blue heron fire, and afterward, when she had sat at herand looked outside Built for sorcerers, woken woods and all, this toas hers too She was a source of ic This was just an enemy too cowardly to show their face
"No," Kaic flow through her, froain She held out her hand and saw light fill it as if she held water cupped between her palers She let a little light slip frorains of sand turning into stars as they tu dark
"Don’t you dare," Kami commanded "I’m not scared I’ht poured froht on stone in her town It washed the shadoay
Chapter Thirty-One
Trust the Sun in Me
Kaain The creaking sound sent horror flashing through her, ainst the pale sky outside, there was another dark shape, casting a long shadow on the shining floor
Kami was terrified for a split second Then she felt the brush of emotions not her own When she turned toward the touch, it went all through her like sunlight: relief and love and joy She ran down the corridor, down through the fading glow of lad that Jared was real, his feelings flooding through her and her ar around his neck
She closed her eyes and held on, as she had when they found Nicola This ti on, her cheek laid in the curve of his neck, cool leather and warm skin on either side of her face He had his ar moment they were both safe and warm in a space with no walls between them
Then Jared stepped away from her, held her back with his hands on her shoulders "You’re all right?" he de he could tell that she was lying, but not why: "I’ic doesn’t ot to her headquarters "Whoever this is could still go after anyone in toho doesn’t have ic, or after one of us e’re asleep Who has theout who the sorcerer going after us is Which ative reporter skills"
A flash of Jared’s a seen from far away,behind her desk because she felt better there Jared was on Angela’s napping couch, one knee drawn up and his ar her
Only Kami’s desktop lamp was on, the better to stay in school after hours without being discovered She was sitting in a pool of light and had to blink to ht in the gray tiht Jared was all in shadow, except for his eyes They shone colorless as glass with ht herShe caain
He never mentioned her walls She could not comment on his
"The proble I thought that being a reporter wouldable to--keep some distance fro and I would care a lot, but it wouldn’t be personal Today I couldn’t stop thinking that Angela or Holly ht be the sorcerer I can’t suspect the people I care about, but I can’t seem to trust them either, and I have to trust soain She could not read a thing from him "Yes," she answered all the same, and they both heard uncertainty in her voice "But I can’t just trust the people whose mind I can read The list is somewhat limited"
"I don’t see a problem with that," Jared said "I only trust you But if you want to be all emotionally healthy about it, I’ll try to understand That’s just the kind of relationship we have"
Kalanced down at the frantic scribbles in her notebook, the black loops of letters tangling like briars She’d worked out ways to suspect everybody in town
"Maybe the problem is that you’re too close to it," Jared said "The idea of Angela or Holly just has you rattled It doesn’t ht," said Kaested "Step back froela and Holly and think about it If it was so on the news or in one of your mystery novels, ould you think did it?"
Kae with her pen She let the pen drop froine that this was just another story The kind of puzzle she’d alanted to solve "All right," she said slowly She got up from her chair and walked the boards of her headquarters, reached the wall, spun, and caot attacked at the Bell and Mist, or at least she said she did SheBut if she was attacked, then the people I could see at the Bell and Mist aren’t the sorcerer I ith Angela most of the time It wasn’t her, unless there’s more than one sorcerer"
Rusty’s voice caela’s that Ka of all this either The dead anian around the start of the school year--the same time the Lynburns arrived The only people we know for certain are sorcerers are that ht; Mrs Tho people in a crazed bid for power; and the Lynburns The ones with the knives, the ones with the past of red and gold"