The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0869 The Land of Darkness hums in peaceful silence beneath its trio of moons. A dark weasel sets his little rump on the ground and sighs contentedly, raising his nose to the sky, sniffing in the cool night air. Or day air. It doesn't really know - it's all the same here. It begins to wonder if there's any wild cabbage growing close by

WHAM.

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The weasel screeches and turns on its tail, dashing away from the twenty-four people that suddenly appeared from absolutely nowhere, each with their arms full of a piece of yurt or a treasured possession.

"Are they all here?" Midnight gasps, dropping Jesse's hand and running around to check, her favorite little stuffed penguin still clutched to her chest.

“Um,” Elias says, standing on his toes and using his superior height to look around at all the ambassadors. "Yes, I'm counting twenty, and then all of us – I think we all made it -"

"Not all the people - I don't care about them -" Midnight snaps, glaring at Elias. "I'm talking about all the pieces of my house!"

it's all here," Pippa says very soothingly, reaching out a hand to pat Midnight on the shoulder while Ben fights to keep his face straight, avoiding the urge to laugh. "We know how important it is to you,

in a circle and peering around with a frown on his face. Honestly, it all looks...exactly the same as the place they just left. Just hills and waste in the darkness. Midnight promised that she'd vanish them all away

ambassadors who keep their respective yurt pieces held tight in their arms, awaiting further instruction and praying not to

"Map?" Jesse asks, frowning.

the ground. "See? All etched into the dirt. It's the map of your stupid Alpha castle

he sees what she's talking about - that Midnight has, indeed, painstakingly drawn out a map of Alpha Academy on the ground,

sharply, hardly able to believe that it's so close that this whole insane

one hand on her hip. "That's what you made me give up

and second guess herself yet again. “And trust me – it's right. But you can't take us to the palace?

looks at him, tired and afraid. "I don't know where

the description, stroking a hand over her hair, looking with a great deal of love at her dark eyes, her sad little face. "The Academy will do perfectly, Mids. Thank you so much. We're ready when

of whom looks hopeful and excited, except perhaps Elias, who looks worriedly at Pippa, and Pippa herself,