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Val and I rush towards the quad, following the sounds of screams. Hand in hand, we pass the spot where Jenn Lamont’s ashes were found, and I shudder, fighting a sudden rush of déjà vu. But this time it’s not the embers of a vampire that has brought shocked students out to see what has happened. It’s Nico carrying a corpse.
And not just any corpse—Nico is carrying his mother.
He lowers her body to the ground, the face still recognizable even though it’s bloated. Nico is in shock, stuck halfway through a shift. His teeth are long when his eye locks on mine in the crowd.
“Edie…she’s dead.”
I step forward, I can’t help but react to his pleading, desperate eye.
“Themis kept me for questioning after the mission,” he goes on. “They didn’t tell me what happened until after they’d banished
