"So what's the plan for when the bond's gone?" "Like we said, we're working on it." "'Working on it' isn't going to cut it." "Then do you have a plan, Oh All Powerful Witch?!" "Yeah. She can leave things as they are, and save all of us in the process-" "No." For the last five minutes, Cassie and Eric have been bickering while Joey and Mrs. Santiago remained silently, faces scrunched up in full thinking mode, trying to come up with something as best they could with the noise. All the while, I've been sitting silently, my paranoia cycling through all the ways this can go very, very wrong. On one hand, I do as I've promised, and eventually my identity gets out, leaving me an open target for the very crusade that killed my mother. Not to mention leaving Cassie and her mother defenseless

