Chapter 0811 J-jacks? Ariel's voice whispers, desperate and unbelieving. Are you real? Am I imagining you?

A sob breaks from Jackson's throat as he falls to his knees. Ari, he says to her, his mental voice shaking, I'm coming

Baby, she says, the word short and scared. Sweetheart, don't - they'll kill you -

I'll fucking kill them! He shouts back.

Ridiculously - absurdly - wonderfully - she laughs. Jackson groans when he hears it, even just in his mind, his hand shaking as he raises it to cover his eyes.

Don't, Ari says again. Please - baby, I love you so much - just...stay close, okay? It's too dangerous right now. I don't know what's happening and we need a plan. We need -

But suddenly her words cut off. Jackson groans as he feels the protective magic slamming down over the castle, knowing that it's gone.

And he - he didn't even tell her that he loved her - which he does, of course he does, so much -

But she knows, right?

murmurs, pressing himself

binoculars again, looking at

the Moon Valley people have disappeared inside the

he murmurs, hardly able to think for the emotion pounding through him - the wonder at being able to reach her in his mind, the horror at having her taken away again, the fear of what she's suffering in there if she's saying that it's too dangerous. But he forces himself to focus, to be useful. "So,

it over in his mind, wondering how he can use it

his snout to the air, letting out

to

sprawled out over his

gold chain that his mom made him start wearing forbade him from ever taking off. Necklaces provided by the Goddess's Priestesses, apparently, to keep them from

away to

like Juniper was.

of the Sinclair kids

complaining about being bored when your

through Mark even as he lifts his head and frowns back at his brother. "Can't I be

his little brother, not in

letting his head hang back. "Ariel would get

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