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“We’re both getting out of here”

“No Leaveyou”

“You’re h with razor stubble “You’re thein the world toyou here We live or die together That’s just the way it is”

The lines of agony on his face softened, and his eyes closed as the incantation did its job He needed a healing spell, but that would take a lot of tithe universe for the extra strength my olf side provided, and carried him out of the room and down the hall

I put hiently as I could and covered him with the sheets This had to be the oldest trick in the book for sneaking soht now

It took every ounce of restraint I had to wheel that cart slowly and calto beat its way out of my chest, and I hoped my luck would hold for just a few more minutes

Thankfully, I made it past all those bespelled hu lot without incident Then I opened the back of the van, picked up the haements and buckets of flowers in the process

Fear shot throughlaundry into the back of their van?”

Two guards in black unifor They weretoward rim expressions, I tried to plant the idea in their minds to head in the opposite direction Either they were shielded against ic or I was too panicked to concentrate, but it didn’t work

I slammed the back door, then ran around the van and cli as that going to happen They ran toward me as one of theine, threw it into reverse, and swung around in a wide arc When one of the my arear and slaas pedal

The gate was about a hundred yards away, and it was shut I wondered if this old van had enough juice to ray and it would take a lot to knock it down

As I sped closer, the guard who’d letauto like a tu out behind me

The bullet hit one of my tires, and the van listed to the left and slammed into a parked car I was thrown around from the i wheel

I ignored the instant headache and the blood that began strea down the side of my face as I threw the van in reverse The tires spun when I stepped on the gas It had gotten hung up on the other car and wasn’t going anywhere

I tumbled out the door, and as I ran to the back of the van, I spotted a guard as aiun at me When I shoved my hand forward, he fell backwards, and his shot whizzed past ht ear I threw open the back door and pulled the haathered Elias in an to run

It took a lot out of ate off its hinges and sent it clattering to the ground The moment I did that, the wards around the co shut across the opening in the fence I strained to hold theuards were running toward ht, and I cried out from the strain as I knocked them over with a flick of my wrist

The rift I was struggling to hold open looked like a little sliver of clear sky between two huge walls of blue static I’d al Meanwhile, the gap was getting narrower and narrower, and I was groeaker by the second