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I nodded and grabbed Alex’s hand before I yanked him to the door. Alex stumbled behind me and I stopped us at the door long enough to draw both of our hoods over our heads to hide us.
“Why do we rush-”
“No time,” I snapped as I peeked out into the hall. The coast was clear, so I dragged him into the corridor and quietly shut the door behind him.
“Your behavior is rather baffling,” he whispered as I turned to him.
“You’ve been lucky to escape my grandmother’s cooking so far, but some day you might learn of the true evil that is scorched food,” I warned him.
He shook his head. “I may never understand you humans.”
I glanced past him and down the hall. “We’re pretty special that way, but you should already know that.”
“I haven’t had too many intimate experiences with humans,” he
