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My head snaps up, but I see a lot of the Eclipse dragons retreating. As I scan my eyes across the skies, I do a head count.

Before I can finish, Cyrus lands next to me.

“Rufus!” he barks, “Are you okay?”

“Y—yeah. I think I’m all right.”

“Good,” Cyrus says, “Because we don’t have the time to stay here and lick our wounds. We have to get back to Greyson Ridge as fast as we can!”

“What?” I ask, “Why?”

“Because this is theleastof what Eclipse has planned, and the girls are alone back there!”

Chapter 25 - Sarah

“All right, Girls,” I order, “It’s time to go!”

I’m not acting as a friend as I scour my gaze over Lena and Julie. The pair of them are scurrying around, gathering up notebooks and papers.

“Come on!” I bark, “Let’sgo!We don’t have time for this! Just grab the map and we need to get to the station!”

“But if there’s an attack, they might destroy all these important documents!” Julie protests.

“Yeah, and I amnotleaving Gram’s notebooks behind,” Lena says firmly.

I sigh. I’ve told them that the dragons think there’s an attack coming, but I really don’t think it’s sunk in how bad this attack is going to be. On the one hand, I’m so frustrated that they’re taking their sweet time to gather up all their stuff, but on the other hand, if I explain to them the gravity of the situation, that I had a vision of a complete bloodbath—and Cyrus, in particular, was killed in a gruesome way—I think it would stress them out too much. Lena especially. When I see her straining to reach down, trying to pick up the journals from around her own pregnant belly, it just becomessoclear that we have to try and avoid that kind of stress for her.

But still—

“Guys!” I snap, “We really do need to go! If you don’t have everything you need by now, then you’re not getting it! I promised the fellas I was going to keep you safe! If you’re not moving in a few seconds, then I’m going to grab you both and drag you out of here.”

Both of them grumble, but they’re starting to move now.

We all hustle to the cruiser. Julie gets into the back, and Lena gets into the front. When I start the car, I punch it into motion—and start driving off as quickly as I can get the car to move.

“Ah!” Lena yelps, “Sarah! Why are you driving like a maniac?!”

“I told you!” I snap to her, “There’s an attack coming!”

“There’sbeenattacks coming since the dragons moved here!” Lena calls back, “We should be kind of used to them by now!”

“Not attacks like this,” I grunt.

“What does that mean?” Julie asks from the back.

“Yeah,” Lena says accusingly, “you’re hiding something from us! Spill it, Sarah! What’s going on?!”

I just keep driving for a moment, eyes fixed on the road.

“Sarah!”Lena snaps, “Come on! We all have to deal with the dragons’ overprotective bullshit all the time—don’t you do this to us!”

“Okay, fine!” I clap back, “So I’ve started having visions, and it’s started happening so quickly that I didn’t get the chance to tell you guys.”

“Oh, wow!” Julie says, “How? What do you get visions of?”

“Danger. I’ve only seen visions of trouble. And I’m telling you, this attack the dragons are going to stop is abigone.” I look at Lena from the corner of my eye and then at Julie in the rearview mirror. “I saw some of them getting killed.”

“Who?!” Julie exclaims.

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