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She was shoved into the wall, Janet Thompson's hand around her /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"neck/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;". "/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"Hey, nerd, meet us at the base of Mt. Ebott after school and bring that sketch book of yours. You'll need it." /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"with that/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" and a wicked grin/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;", Janet walked away, leaving Molly with a /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"dilemma/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"./span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" Normally, when Janet and her friends /span/spanspan class="TextRun Strikethrough SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="text-decoration: line-through; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"(read: gang of scum bags)/span/span span class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"threatened/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" her, Callum and Thomas would come with her, scaring the/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"m off. However, /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"Callum was /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"finally/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" going to talk to Thomas. /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"Molly made her way to her next class and made up her mind. She could take one beating, or another session of them pulling apart her "sketch book/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"" (really, an old notebook that she took as a decoy) if it /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"meant/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" that Thomas and Callum could stop dancing around this issue/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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Molly had a chance encounter with a /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"Whismer/span/span span class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"that she barely scrapped out of/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"./span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" Soon, she was out of the ruins in a cold, snowy forest./span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" The /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"girl walked farther through the woods for a bit before f/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"ootsteps approached her/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;". 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A y'all, armored figure was standing close by, red hair flapping in the wind. /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"The figure quickly moved on leaving Molly to fear for her life. /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"It's okay. What would Seraphina do? /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"Hmmm… /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"She would use her rouge ability to /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"sneak out and follow the guard!/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" Molly quickly got up and sneakily followed /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"the /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;""guard"/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;". /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-indent: 48px;"span class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;""ITS ME! MICKEY MOUSE!" Molly's scream echoed through the cafeteria. The other students rolled their eyes, /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"as /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"this had become a daily /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"occurrence/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;". "/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"How's/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" it been going Molly?"/span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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He's /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"going to/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" show up soon! You know this! /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"And I-I/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"'m planning on talking to /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"him after school at the park." His voice got steadily quieter as he said /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"that. A gigantic grin broke out onto /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"her/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" face. Callum had been crushing on Thomas since he was fourteen and Thomas had been crushing on Callum since he was /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"twelve./span/span span class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"Molly, being a good friend, did not tell each other about the mutuality of their crushes, and suffered through the awkward /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"attempts at /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"flirting. After /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"a few extra minutes of Molly teasing Callum, Thomas showed up and shu/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"t that conversation down, because you can't tease someone about their crush when their crush is right next to them. /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"(Well, you can't while still being a good person, anyways)/span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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She was shoved into the wall, Janet Thompson's hand around her /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"neck/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;". "/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"Hey, nerd, meet us at the base of Mt. 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You'll need it." /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"with that/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" and a wicked grin/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;", Janet walked away, leaving Molly with a /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"dilemma/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"./span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" Normally, when Janet and her friends /span/spanspan class="TextRun Strikethrough SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="text-decoration: line-through; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"(read: gang of scum bags)/span/span span class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"threatened/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" her, Callum and Thomas would come with her, scaring the/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"m off. 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She could take one beating, or another session of them pulling apart her "sketch book/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"" (really, an old notebook that she took as a decoy) if it /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"meant/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" that Thomas and Callum could stop dancing around this issue/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-indent: 48px;"span class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"Molly took a deep breath before /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"approaching Janet and co. "H-hey guys."/span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-indent: 48px;"span class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;""Hey! Someone decided to show up! Alright, so we're going to play a little game. You're going to go /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"up to the top of the mountain! Then, bring us something from the top!"/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" Molly balked./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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Before /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"anyone could spot her, /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"she ducked behind a tree/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;". Molly trembled as she looked around the tree. A y'all, armored figure was standing close by, red hair flapping in the wind. /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"The figure quickly moved on leaving Molly to fear for her life. /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"It's okay. What would Seraphina do? /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"Hmmm… /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"She would use her rouge ability to /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"sneak out and follow the guard!/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;" Molly quickly got up and sneakily followed /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;"the /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;""guard"/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 19.425px;" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="background-color: inherit;". /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW64659202 BCX2" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:259}" /span/p
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