7
“This is a terrible idea,” Cedric muttered as he followed Godric, Ashton, and Lucien down a hedgerow in Vauxhall Gardens.
“I’d like to point out that most of Godric’s ideas are terrible,” Lucien replied in a low whisper. “But it hasn’t stopped any of us from participating before.”
“I don’t see any of you with better ideas,” Godric snapped, glowering at Lucien and Cedric.
Cedric smiled. It was like old times, when he and Godric had run wild in Cambridge, before they had been pulled into Charles’s orbit like four moons, before Peter had been lost to them all forever. It had been a binding of five souls over the loss of one. And tonight, like they had the night they’d saved Charles all those years ago, they were once again trying to rescue Charles, this time from himself.
“How do we ev
