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PENN
Penn considers his new companions. He pays special attention to the one the prince calls Champion. He wonders if just anyone goes after a Fire Scale nowadays.
What c*****e, then, Penn thinks! City boys striking out after beasts! He’s sure Wolfe won’t make it half a day in the Summer Alps. Maybe Yurka will spit him out like a wad of fat before the Emerging even begins.
Then Xerxes will have one less soul in his boat.
Penn doesn’t care so much about that. What’s one less soul, or one more? But Cody’s soul is worth ten, he thinks. If she goes to the Under Realm, she will sink Xerxes’s boat.
The crown prince is ginger-haired, like the old king long before him. He carries on happily, and teases Wolfe, and invites Penn and Cody to the Palace at Aisla – a friendly sort of g
