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Ridley hurried home after school, her thoughts split between which elemental to track down first and what to say to Grandpa when she walked into the apartment. What if things were totally awkward with him? What if she couldn’t remember all the questions she wanted to ask? And when it came to looking up the names of the elementals, what if she found there were multiple people with the same name living in Lumina City? Surely that was possible, even in a post-Cataclysm world with a decimated population.
But all thoughts fled Ridley’s mind as she walked into her kitchen and stopped at the sight of Archer sitting at the table. “Um, hi?” She looked around for Grandpa, but he was nowhere in sight. “Well,” she said, facing Archer again. “This is creepy, you just sitting here all alone in my ap
