Violet looked up at Ryan, who was staring down at them with a weird expression on his face. For a moment, Carl's hands tightened on hers, then he let go.
"What is wrong?" Carl asked.
"Some of the alarms have been triggered," Ryan said. "One or two of them might be a coincidence, but all five of them just went off at once."
"But they are not supposed to attack until tomorrow night!" Violet said, jumping to her feet.
Carl was standing beside her, and she wanted to grab him, to do something that would guarantee that he would not just vanish before her eyes the same way their bond had vanished from her mind.
They were not ready. They had planned to set more traps. Violet had told the headmistress the attack was planned on the new moon, which was on Thursday. Nobody would help them before
