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"Of course. Because presumably you must have had some sort of plan the rest of us couldn't
understand when you took an underage Moroi royal out of the Academy and exposed her to
constant Strigoi threats.”
It was the Kirova lecture all over again, except with more witnesses.
"We never ran into any Strigoi," I replied stiffly.
"Obviously," he said with a snicker. "I already figured that out, seeing as how you're still alive.”
I wanted to shout that maybe I could have defeated a Strigoi, but after getting beat up in the last
class, I now suspected I couldn't have survived an attack by Mason, let alone an actual Strigoi.
When I didn't say anything, Stan started pacing in front of the class.
"So what'd you do? How'd you make sure she stayed safe? Did you avoid going out at night?”
"Sometimes." That was true—especially when we'd first run away. We'd relaxed a little after
months went by with no attacks.
"Sometimes," he repeated in a high-pitched voice, making my answer sound incredibly stupid.
"Well then, I suppose you slept during the day and stayed on guard at night.”
"Er…no.”
"No? But that's one of the first things mentioned in the chapter on solo guarding. Oh wait, you
wouldn't know that because you weren't here.”
I swallowed back more swear words. "I watched the area whenever we went out," I said,
needing to defend myself.
"Oh? Well that's something. Did you use Carnegie's Quadrant Surveillance Method or the
Rotational Survey?”
I didn't say anything.
"Ah. I'm guessing you used the Hathaway Glance-Around-When-You-Remember-To Method.”
"No!" I exclaimed angrily. "That's not true. I watched her. She's still alive, isn't she?”