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After their dinner of energy bars—everything they found in the hotel’s pantry had expired years ago—Ember disappeared and everyone else went one floor up to the side of the hotel where there was minimal damage to the windows. The beds in most of the rooms were covered in dusty linen, which they removed and replaced with clean linen. Well, as clean as they could find in the hotel’s laundry, where things smelled musty and were covered in a very fine layer of dust.
Ridley offered some of her dry clothes to Callie, but Callie searched the entire ground level of the hotel until she located a small shop containing clothes. It was filled mainly with bathing suits and fancy dresses, but she managed to find some articles of clothing that would be comfortable enough to sleep in. Then, since thr
