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“Tell us what happened again!” Ash cried.
Ash, Ian, Ariadne, and I were all inside the cabin that I shared with the other elementals, sitting in a circle around Gabriel. He was in bed, fast asleep. And he had been asleep for two hours now.
When he had first fainted by the lakefront, I had been really freaked out. I hadn’t known what I had done—if I had done anything—and that flow of magical energy that I had been feeling had ceased abruptly. I had cried out desperately for help, but no one was there to help. I ended up having to pick Gabriel up and drag him up the hill, shouting, until Ian, who was in the area for some reason or other, finally heard me. He helped me drag Gabriel over to Ariadne and Ash, who both panicked before checking on him and discovering that there was actually
