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The group’s stupification lasted until they reached the car. Jenny was in the lead, and she spun around with her back to the vehicle and grinned at the group. She flung her arms up in the air and danced a little jig. “Was that easy, or what?”
“Quite,” Ruthven agreed.
Jenny’s face fell and she dropped her arms to her sides. “Why the long faces? We won!”
Adam glanced over his shoulder at the darkened house. “Yeah, but it was too easy.”
“It’s because there was so many of us!” Jenny insisted as she swept her arm over the large group. “I mean, we even have all the Saints! His own people!”
“Wasn’t there one more Saint?” Sarah spoke up as she looked around them. “The woman with the dragon?”
Maurice nodded. “Yes. Andrea and Stachys.”
“Sticky what?” Jenny repeated.
“Stachys, h
