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"So...what is it you're planning on telling Panda and the twins when they wake up?" Nate asked. "Shut up." Clara snapped. She wiped sweat from her brow and collapsed onto a chair at the Crawfords' kitchen table, a scowl on her pretty face. "No, we should probably figure out what we're going to tell them now." Draven said with a sigh. "They're going to be up in a few hours, if not sooner." After subduing Aradhana, Draven had sent Crowley across the street to get Clara. Nate had come over a little later with Ava to find out what was going on. Clara had bound Aradhana into her pantry and tied her in place with red silk cord when it became ap

"I think my foot turned into a giant blister." Evan whined. "Seriously CJ, there's no more foot left, it's all just one massive hurt." "I'm sorry Evan, but I can't heal it for you." CJ said slowly, barely clinging to patience. "Work through it, we don't have much choice." "Can't we go back to the van?" "It was your idea to leave the van." CJ reminded him. They'd decided, after another half hour of driving on the same bit of scenery, that they'd try going by foot. They'd gotten a change in scenery, but now they were really lost. "I don't think we could find the van again anyway." Evan sat down on the ground with a dramatic sigh. "We're goi

*Note: This story uses characters I've introduced in my missing children saga, but it is set much later along the timeline. Ananda and Crowley are now 19 and 16 respectively, Ananda is in pre-med at Brown University and Crowley has dropped out of high school. They're living together in an apartment on college hill in Providence. When Crowley left that afternoon to run errands his roommate was sitting in the living room with text books and snack food spread around him, frazzled and content looking at the same time as he crammed for a test. He waved at Crowley as he left, sparing the other teen a wide smile before he went back to work. Crowle

"You know, this week started out so good..." Draven said with a sigh. "We did all of Crowley's school shopping within the parameters of our budget, Evan cooked supper a couple times without burning anything, the first day of kindergarten went spectacularly...and then...crazy batshit suck." "Yeah, well we're all pleased as punch at you and Ev for breaking our little spell of normal life." Clara snapped. They were on their way back to Malrin via greyhound bus since CJ and Evan had disappeared with the van they'd used to get to the Society's commune with. Ava was asleep on Clara's lap, restored to her normal self. She'd been waking up every hou

Eli and Draven gaped at Soleil, at a complete loss as to what to do. Eli started mentally tallying the number of Cornu laws Soleil had broken at this point and shook his head. "Sylvan, the Society isn't going to let you keep the Outsider's child." Eli finally said in an uncharacteristically serious tone. Soleil gave a haughty sniff. "The Society has abused me plenty in my lifetime. I'm done with them. Obviously there are no benefits if I follow their ridiculous rules so just count me as an Outsider too. Ciel and I are happy-" "Her name's not Ciel, it's Ava Elizabeth Hallows!" Draven shouted. "Her name is Ciel Sylvan now and I'd appreciate

"Can you just admit you don't know where we are so we can get help?" Evan asked. "I'm not lost Evan, this is something else." CJ ground out. He'd pulled over to the side of the road and was attempting to calm down by repeating the refuges to himself, but before he could even get to the word Buddha Evan's piercing voice broke through his badly-needed attempt at grounding. "Well it looks an awful lot like lost." "I take refuge in the lord Buddha, I take refuge in the dharma and I take refuge in the sangha." CJ repeated calmly, then banged his head against the steering wheel and screamed. "C-CJ, are you okay?" Evan asked quietly. CJ had kept