I enter the wood before realizing Angel never told me where.
"Hi Max,"
"Oh… Fang," I swivel to face him.
"Why are you out here?" he says spreading his wings.
"Looking for you," I spread my wings and he kisses me.
"Quite a show you put on today."
"Well, I'm not the one who freaking vanished!"
"I guess," We hear voices and pull our wings in. A boy and girl step out from the trees.
"Cammie?" I say,
"Oh, Max," she says.
"Hey Fang," says the boy standing with Cammie.
"Zach," says Fang with a nod. This is really awkward.
"Umm Cammie, I'll see you back at the dorm. Come on Fang." I grab his hand. I lead Fang away from Cammie and Zach. We are far enough away I tell him about what Angel saw with Clary.
"Tell Iggy to keep an ear for anything. I'll have Angel tell me if she gets anything." Ah, Angel a creepy little mind reader but my creepy little mind reader. We head back to our dorms.
Only Clary, Macey, and Bex are there. I plop down on my bed and open my wings. You try holding them in for 10 hours. Cammie comes running in and everyone turns to look at her.
"This weekend we have a Covert Ops exercise." Bex and Macey give a giant yeah and jump from their beds. From my first class all I got was this wasn't going to be easy.
"Do you know where?" says Macey.
"Tina said New York."
-Cammie POV-
Having a Mutant bird kid for a roommate.
(A list by Cammie Morgan)
Pro: She can fight like nobody's business and get you out of P&E early.
Con: It then becomes everybody's business and you can't tell anyone.
Pro: When we race other dorms in P&E we always win.
Con: She makes you look really slow.
Pro: You can listen to Tina's crazy rumors.
Con: You have to listen to Tina's she-thinks-is-crazy-but-are-acually-not-so-crazy-and-acually-more-like-the-truth rumors.
Everyone is still cheering my news when I have to break the bad news. "7th graders are coming." The cheers cease.
The week flies by and we have made our plan for the exercise. Each team has to recover papers from a box outside a hotel in New York. This Hotel is going to be guarded, heavily.
The morning of we dress in normal clothes and are equipped with comm. units. Liz is going to back here working at base while the rest of us are out on the field. Townstend gives us street map and we are dropped in New York. The sun has set and we are left with the streetlamps as our only guide. I locate the Hotel Durmont and signal the others. Max goes and climbs on top of a near-by roof. I get the go-a-head from Max and we round the corner and see the hotel.
It's a run-down, boarded up shack that looks like it has been broken into. Clary gives me a nervous look.
