More torches were lit up to illuminate the vast cavern of the hatchinggrounds. Nearly two dozen young, preteen riders and their dragons wholooked to b... less than a full turn old stared back at them.?Creadith is with you, and Sorki?? aske the teen with a Queen behind her.?I?m here, Dana.? Sorki rushed forward to hug her.?I was afraid we?d lost you when N?rissa stole you from the other Weyr,?Dana said.?You?ve been here this whole time?? asked Zinda.?C?rril and I started getting the newest riders. No matter, I determined to take the gem to Mordecai Rothstein for valuing as soon as possible, and in fact visited his premises in Hatton Street the next day.The bell over the shop door tinged as I pushed open the door. Mordecai looked up from the gem he was polishing and smiled.“Major Greenaway. How good to see you again.” He noted my new rank insignia. “I take it you have been promoted? My congratulations.”“To Lieutenant-Colonel, Mister Rothstein, and thank you.” I took the diamond, wrapped. She saw the night light that lit up the bathroom. She went in and shut the door quietly and did her business. She washed her hands and quietly walked out. She notice her brothers room was opened a crack. She didn't’t think anything of it and crawled back into her bed.She tossed and turned for a couple of minutes but couldn't’t go to sleep. So she just laid silently in bed and looked at the wall that was attached to Daniels room. She wondered if he was sleeping. She didn't’t have to wonder for. There would be a party tonight but he might be ticked if he just found out Angel was gone. I don’t think she told him she was going. She won’t be at the party tonight and I had one of those creepy feelings that I shouldn’t be here either.When I got back to the desk, a flag I’d set up on Brenda’s accounts was chiming gently. She used a credit card in the name of Ashley Lark, one of the aliases I’d recorded. It was charged yesterday in Belize. It’s time I left the country. I used my James.
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