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“Did she change her mind?” Meera asked the moment she opened her door about half an hour later and saw Ridley standing there.
“Who?” Ridley asked.
“You know, the person who was supposed to help us last night. The person you said turned out to be a gigantic coward.”
“Um … I’m not sure.” Ridley walked past Meera. “I sent her a message this morning pleading with her. I figured I’d wait until the end of the day to see if it made any difference.” She walked into the kitchen and stopped at the sight of the commpad, laptop, notepaper and pens on the kitchen table. “What’s going on here? Wait, are you doing schoolwork already?”
“Yes!” Meera hurried to the table with a panicked look on her face. “Didn’t you see the net-mail from Wallace?”
“Uh … no?”
“Apparently we were supposed to read ev
