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"Lissa!" I gasped out. It all came back, the memories and the emotions. And, in fact, her heldback
emotions suddenly poured into me—at staggering levels. More terror. Intense terror.
Those feelings wanted to suck me back into her body, but I couldn't let them. Not quite yet. I
fought against her, needing to stay here. With the words coming out in a rush, I told Dimitri
everything that had happened.
He was in motion before I finished, putting on clothes and looking every bit like a badass god.
Ordering me to get dressed, he tossed me a sweatshirt with Cyrillic writing on it to wear over
the skimpy dress.
I had a hard time following him downstairs; he made no effort to slow for me this time. Calls
were made when we got there. Orders shouted. Before long, I ended up in the guardians' main
office with him. Kirova and other teachers were there. Most of the campus's guardians.
Everyone seemed to speak at once. All the while, I felt Lissa's fear, felt her moving farther and
farther away.
I yelled at them to hurry up and do something, but no one except Dimitri would believe my
story about her abduction until someone retrieved Christian from the chapel and then verified
Lissa really wasn't on campus.
Christian staggered in, supported by two guardians. Dr. Olendzki appeared shortly thereafter,
checking him out and wiping blood away from the back of his head.
Finally, I thought, something would happen.
"How many Strigoi were there?" one of the guardians asked me.
"How in the world did they get in?" muttered someone else.
I stared. "Wh—? There weren't any Strigoi.”
Several sets of eyes stared at me. "Who else would have taken her?" asked Ms. Kirova primly.
"You must have seen it wrong through the…vision.”
"No. I'm positive. It was…they were…guardians.”