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I blinked at him. “You mean one of the members of the Committee? The one who didn’t talk?”
He dropped the curtain and nodded. “Just the same.”
“Why’d you invite her here?” Alex asked him.
Maddock shook his head. “I did not, nor has she ever deigned to visit me before, nor anyone connected to the school. Her co-members complain bitterly about being excluded from her company.”
“If you do not mind, I will remain in the shadows until she takes leave,” Gwyn spoke up as he strode over to the far dark corner to the left of the doorway. He turned to face us with a smile and stepped back. One moment he was there, and the next he had vanished.
“He’s still there,” Alex whispered to me as he looked upon the corner with narrowed eyes. “I can smell him.”
Maddock glanced at Tristan. “I
