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“Aahhh!”
Orion and I spun around so we faced the way we came. A small figure raced out from a side street halfway down the empty main road. Their destination was the park, but their pursuers had other ideas.
Behind the short figure floated three dark, tall, thin forms shrouded in billowing black cloaks. The lower hem of their outfits stopped a half foot above the ground, but their bodies stopped higher. There was a gap of air between the hem and the road. Their long sleeves ended in the same limb deficiency. They leaned forward as though fighting a tough wind.
Orion’s sharp voice brought me out of my careful attention to detail. “Get ahead of the girl and grab her!”
I whipped my head to him and frowned. “How?”
He pointed at a side street to our right. “Take that way and ge
