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The shock wave threw Ridley backward, but her instinctive reaction—air—saved her before she hit the wall. Callie wasn’t so lucky. As Ridley rose toward the ceiling to get her bearings in the aftermath of the explosion, she saw Callie slumped on the floor against the wall. In the passageway, which now had three small craters in the floor and cracks zigzagging in every direction, the mayor was in a worse state. Blood smeared the wall he’d been thrown against, and his large figure lay motionless on the floor. Malachi had vanished, so he must have concealed himself with air as well. Knowing he could take care of himself, Ridley turned to Callie.
She swooped down, wrapped her invisible self around Callie, and sped through the door and over the mayor. The man and woman who’d tried to stop h
