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I think the new boy at our school is a wizard.

Cassian will insist that wizards aren’t real, which is rather odd for someone who likes fantasy stories as much as he does, but I’m sure Ash is magic in some way.

I know, I know! I sound mad, of course I do, but weird things keep happening around us now. Last week something Cassian called an ‘ice spirit’ broke into the school, as you do, and ...

“I have never been more excited to visit a post office,” Rowan sighed, drumming his fingers on the bus window. “In fact, I have never been less excited to visit a post office.”

“Because you’ve never visited a post office.”

“Exactly. Say, when did Casey get this smart?”

Casey laughed, leaning over the back of Rowan’s seat and swatting at him. “Bastard.”

“Look, my parents were married—“

“They’r...

“So, Sable.”

Well, there go my chances of getting out of here. The price my name carries is… is a high one, particularly down here. I’m not the most popular person in the Undercity, funnily enough.

I also can’t talk with this gag in my mouth.

Go figure.

The woman who brought me here — who used the most pathetic attack I’ve ever experienced and still got me in her little corner — laughs when I ...

𝔸 𝔻𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕊𝕖𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕥

“Is she alright?”

“I don’t know! Give me a moment, for God’s sake!”

Roxana prodded at Ash’s face, trying to determine whether the girl was actually unconscious or just trying to take a moment. Elara, meanwhile, was calming Danica down — and the youngest sister in turn was lowering the intensity of the whirlwind.

“Do you think we’ve killed her?”

“I… she’s alive?” Roxan...

“Your full name is Roscoe?”

Rory nodded, her blonde hair falling in front of her face and blocking those sinful golden eyes from my view. “Roscoe Rose, they called me. Awful decision, but there you go, Dad was as creative as ‘rose bush’… why are you shaking?”

I couldn’t believe it. I’d spent years trying to decide whether Rory Alden was really the Aelian I had to find… and I’d gone for it. I’d d...

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jazz so incredibly furious with anyone. And it is quite surprising to see him try to confront anyone about anything.

He’s shaking, he’s so angry. Fists clenched in his blazer pockets, bright spots of red forming in his cheeks, eyes alight with unbridled danger… this is not the Jasper I know.

I think Dad’s actually quite worried. Maybe even scared. Of his eleven year ...

I can’t quite remember how I ended up in here. But here I am, trying not to look at myself in the mirror and about ten seconds from bawling my eyes out.

It’s been three-and-a-half weeks since Tori died and I don’t think I’ve really, actually cried yet.

But I just can’t stand it anymore.

Evie moved into the dorms immediately after the funeral, telling us that sleeping in that room without our ...

“Camille!”

It’s insane, actually. Just a few short weeks after my parents died and this is where we are.

I’m about to die too, aren’t I?

Hazel knows who my parents were, what they did, and nobody has any hope of killing Blue. The three of us make up the oldest children in White Orchid, if we ignore Ash… which I don’t really want to do.

It’s the fact that between the four of us — because we a...

Elliott couldn’t always see ghosts. Or rather, he wasn’t born with the ability. Nowadays he can pretty much always see ghosts if he chooses — which is quite confusing, isn’t it?

The thing is, Elliott’s ability came from almost drowning seven years ago, and I never experienced anything even remotely similar over the last… roughly six-and-a-half years of our lifetime, I guess? So I have to leave th...

Wren

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I don’t quite remember how it came out, but everything went to hell when it did. Rowan screamed at our parents, and they screamed right back at him, and nothing good came of any of that…

The argument lasted for what felt like hours — with the loudest part of all being Rowan’s almost-shriek about his twin’s name — and the whole time I stayed in my room. Door closed.

At one point I might ...