Chapter Four
“So you were offered a position on the Young Neos by Incantation herself?” said Malcolm, staring at me in shock. “Get out of here.”
“No, I'm telling the truth,” I said. “You saw our fight with Steel Skin on the news yesterday, didn't you?”
Malcolm and I sat on the front steps of John Smith High School, which was the school I attended. It was Monday and we were having lunch together outside today, instead of at our usual spot in the cafeteria. That was because I wanted to avoid being overheard by the other students or faculty, and because most of them ate lunch in the cafeteria, this was the most logical place in the school to talk in private. There were a few other students nearby, sitting underneath the trees or at some of the picnic tables, but they were far enough away t
