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We halted, but Blackbeak stood in the crook of my arm and fluffed out his wings. “What’s going on here? You should all be asleep!”
Ferrer nodded at us. “There’s something not right about them, sir. They’ve brought some trouble with them that we don’t want here.”
“What trouble?” Blackbeak questioned him.
Ferrer half-turned to Susan. “Tell them what you saw.”
Susan and her mother stood just behind Ferrer. She swallowed the lump in her throat and stepped forward. “I-I was checking on Simon. . .on his body when I heard something in the bushes beside the Resting.”
I arched an eyebrow and glanced at Shade, but he slightly shook his head. Not the time for a translation.
“And you heard something?” Ferrer asked her.
She nodded. “Y-yes. I heard a voice, very gruff. I didn’t rec
