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and turned to the door. Claire grasped the handle and pulled it open, showing no sign of pain upon touching it.
    It swung open easily, revealing a vast white tundra. I shivered. Claire and Emile stepped out, followed by the dragonets, who had no problem crossing the threshold without charms. On the other side, they disappeared, returning to wherever they had come from.
    Claire turned around and thrust her hand back through the doorway. Emile did the same. Connor and Nix reached out and took the charms, both of them shuddering visibly when their hands neared the door.
    But as soon as they took the Penatrist charms from Claire and Emile, they relaxed, no longer affected by the bee-stings of the door’s protection charm.  
    They stepped through the doorway, into the tundra. As they were turning back to us, the sound of thundering footsteps reached my ears. The hair on my arms stood up.
    “Guards are coming!” I said.
    Connor and Nix thrust the charms back over the threshold. Del and Aidan grabbed them. Aidan pressed his into my hand, then shoved me through the door, not waiting for me to argue that he should go first.
    I stumbled out into the cold, my feet aching at the feel of the icy stone step. I whirled around and thrust the charm back at Aidan, who grabbed it and lunged through just as guards streamed into the kitchen.
    He slammed the door shut behind him, but it would only buy us seconds.
    “I can transport two people,” Del said as she grabbed Connor and Claire each by an arm.
    “I’ve got a transportation charm.” Aidan held out a small black stone. “Everyone else come with me.”
    We nodded. Del disappeared with Connor and Claire as Aidan threw the stone to the ground. A cloud of glittery gray smoke poofed up. We stepped in just as the door to the kitchen opened, revealing a horde of guards.  
    When I opened my eyes in my own living room, I almost fell over with relief. My heart was still pounding, but when the guards didn’t show up, I knew they hadn’t been able to follow us.
    Home. It was tiny and cluttered, but it was all mine.
    Everyone stood around me, tugging their masks off. I was so grateful to see everyone again, whole and hale. Last time I’d seen them, they’d been fleeing Victor and the bulldog. Del and Nix had been unconscious.
    “You guys are the best! Thank you.” I went in a circle, hugging everyone. “I was screwed right before you showed up.”
    “Thank magic for luck, then,” Aidan said as he squeezed me hard. “The timing was coincidental. We’d just figured out where the prison was located. It’s damned hard to find.”
    “Did you bring the dragonets?” I asked.
    “No,” Del said. “They showed up at the same time we did.”
    “I guess they’re my guardian dragons.” They’d shown up last time I’d really needed them, too, when I’d been facing off against Victor Orriodor at the stone circle near my parents’ home. Thank magic, I wasn’t going to look a gift dragon in the mouth.
    “Are we safe here?” Emile asked. “Will they know to look for us?”
    “They don’t know my name,” I said. “And my concealment charm works again. So they can’t find me here. Do you have any kind of concealment charm that will block you from their seers, if they decide to look for you?”
    Emile shook his head. “No.”
    “I can get you one.” Aidan pulled out his phone and tapped a message in, then looked up. “Someone will be here in fifteen minutes to take care of it. And I’ve put the best protections available on this building.”
    “We haven’t had any trouble the last few days,” Nix said. “Any time Nix and I go out, we use a glamour charm to change our faces. That’s all Dermot Mulvey could possibly recognize, because I don’t think he knows our names either.”
    “Dermot Mulvey?” I asked.
    “That big bastard from the Order of the Magica. Jowly fellow.” Del gestured to her cheeks. “The one siding with Victor Orriodor.”
    “The bulldog. And yeah,