“You feel like you could break the wards and get us off the premises?” I ask, pulling her in and kissing the top of her head.
“You know what, I think, truly, it will be easy as pie!”
I look at my girl with complete awe.
Max knocks me out of the way to get to the food bags again. “There’s pie?”
Pie.
Wes loves pie.
Gods, I miss my twin so much. It's like I'm only half a person now, where I used to be basically two people.
If my math is correct, that means I'm a quarter of the Donovan I used to be.
Hold on, brother.
We’ll be reunited soon.
18
Ihave magic, and it’s not any old magic, it’s like…Magic Mike XXX magic.
But I’d give every drop of it up to have Wes in my arms right now.
Hmmm, I wonder if there is some kind of ‘finding my lost love’ spell I could learn?
I know it’s important to get Max, Donovan and Cosmo outside the school grounds, but it feels like no one is rushing to find Wes, and that ismypriority. “Come on then,” I say, clapping my hands.
Alexis instantly gets to his feet, even though he’s looking a little rough around the edges. Max has dropped off and is snoring gently, curled up on the floor like the giant puppy he is.
Ludo and Donovan are also both tired and stiff.
Me too, guys, but first things first. “As it’s dinner time, we should try and breach the wards now,” I tell them. “There’ll be fewer people about.”
Surprisingly, Cosmo agrees with me.
“Striker can meet us with a car. Then we’ll just make up some tale that I met up with everyone in Europe, getting a fucking diamond.”
Hmm, that’s not a bad plan.
Before we hustle through Defectivum, I watch Alexis cast a listening spell.
There are so many things I need to learn.
“All clear, let’s go,” he says.
At the entrance more listening spells only bring back bird song and faint building work sounds. “Go,” he says again.
Sprinting to the edge of the woods only takes a couple of minutes, and I’m fairly confident no one has seen us. “Now where?”
“The other side of the lake has the lowest section of wall,” Max says. “Even if you can break the ward, we still have to climb that fucking barrier.”
“That’ll take too long,” Alexis disagrees. “Let’s go to the facilities buildings, it’s close and there’s plenty of cover.”
—There will be ladders there, also—
“I’ll tell Striker to meet us as close to that point as possible,” Cosmo mutters, busily texting.
