Michael came back into the room. “You up
for—?” He stopped and went blank for a moment.
“Michael? Are you all right?”
He shook himself and let out a long breath,
focusing on her again. “Weird. I thought I felt the wards, but then
it just stopped. Never had a false alarm before.”
“Is it possible?”
He shrugged. “I guess so. It stopped so fast
it couldn’t have been a wizard coming onto the island. Maybe
someone in an airplane or car nearby.”
“Our thieves coming back?”
“Why would they? They’ve got what they
want.”
“Did they take all your notes and
diagrams?”
“Some of them. Not all.”
“It would take a lot of balls to come back
now anyway.”
“It took a lot of balls to rob me in the
first place. They’re going to regret it, too.”
She didn’t like the sound of that, but first
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