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!"

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

on his face. Honestly, it all looks...exactly the same as the place they just left.

who keep their respective yurt pieces held tight in their arms, awaiting further instruction

"Map?" Jesse asks, frowning.

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

sees what she's talking about - that Midnight has, indeed, painstakingly drawn out a map of Alpha Academy on the ground, presumably so that she could more effectively spy on him

it's so close that this whole insane journey is so nearly finished. "That's where

isn't it?" Midnight snaps, turning to him and putting one hand on her hip. "That's what you

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

where that is. I – it took

looking with a great deal of love at her dark eyes, her

people, each of whom looks hopeful and excited, except perhaps Elias, who looks worriedly at Pippa, and Pippa herself, who stands with her eyes closed, her arm looped around her Alpha, her other balancing