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Of course, when Mrs. Nightwing called upon Ann and Felicity to speak to them in her study, I was apt to come along. It was when we got near the great front entrance that the head mistress noticed someone else on her trip. She looked at me with sad eyes and told me I could wait here and my friends would be back within the hour. So I stood there while she and the other two members of the new Order walked away.

I walk over to the curtains by the window, thinking about Kartik, wishing I could see him smile at me like he did when he found my father's old bat in front of his tent. And as I think of him, I pull back the heavy curtain, dust coating my lungs as I breathe. There he is.

As I pull back the curtain, Kartik walks past the entrance to the school. He is dressed in nothing but his trousers and a single gold hoop piercing his ear, his black cloak and Gypsy vests no where to be found. When he spots me, he starts to walk briskly away, knowing I have seen him as well.

I pull open the door and run after him, knowing that I am a stupid fool for doing so, as I pull up my skirt so it doesn't run in the mud. I spot him sitting on a log not too far away, and run faster. "Kartik," I whisper before he has a chance to run away again. Slowly, I walk up to him. He stands and I step closer.

This time when I kiss him, it is my whole fault, and not just to save my skin as well as others. This time when I kiss him, I am ready to the tongue that enters through the parted lips. Just like all my dreams. But after a moment, Kartik pulls from my kiss.

"You still think I should block my visions?" I ask shyly and sit on the log, brushing it off first as to not get dirt on my dress.

Kartik is silent for a moment, then he sits down next to me. "You destroyed the ruins. That was very brave of you to do so. And I can tell how hard it was to have let your friend go, your mother as well."

I nod as if I had a choice to let poor Pip go. "I guess you could say that." But before I had a chance to say another word, he kissed me again.

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