The pendulum takes an eternity to move, but when it moves, it spins faster than helicopter rotor blades, as if it wants to take flight. And it spins...
Clockwise.
Clockwise for yes.
We're cursed!
My whole body has been dropped into a snowbank. Or at least, that's how it feels. I'm frozen and numb. Demos looks the same. Gussie is a bird statue.
Cursed.
In my human life, I thought curses were, frankly, ridiculous. That what people called "
"That is a yes?" Kaline asks, with hesitant hope in her eyes, as if somehow the result will prove to be the opposite of the rules that Niall, the Hiccuping Hermit. just set out for us.
"A yes all the way, Young Miss," Niall confirms, and Kaline's face crumples.
"You...you mean we're..." Vedette's lips and tongue can't even form the dreaded word.
