Chapter 0994

"Come back here," Neumann calls, pointing at the ground in front of him. Midnight appears again in the corner, dismissing her shadows, and dashes back over, smiling her delight.

"Are you seriously encouraging this?" the Captain murmurs, shaking his head and heaving a big sigh.

Neuman doesn't reply, instead narrowing his eyes at Midnight. "Are you smart?"

"Plenty smart," she says, giving a sharp nod.

"Where were you educated?"

"My yurt."

Neumann pauses for a moment and then moves on. “Do you have advanced chemistry and mathematics?"

"Nope!" Midnight says, tucking her hands behind her back and giving her head a firm shake. "But Ariel says she will tutor me all summer and I'll be ready for the fall."

"All right," Neumann murmurs, his voice dropping low, his mouth drawing to a thin line. "Let's quiz you, then, to see if you have the mental capacity to enroll in this school. If there are eighteen bananas and six coconuts that you need to split between a pack of baboons and another of monkeys who are at war, how do you split them up to effect piece?"

"What on earth does that have to do with her capacity for espionage?" the Captain blurts out, exasperated.

"I want to see how the girl's mind works,” Neumann murmurs, keeping his eyes on Mids.

the side, her eyes squinting in thought. "I'm afraid that I need

"Such as?" Neumann asks.

eyes seriously on his face. "And I need to know whether or not

face spreads into a

into a wicked smile. "And all the monkeys and the baboons recognize me as their King. And I give bananas to my favorites to ensure their

delighted with the girl, and then turns his head to the Captain. "I mean, if

rolls his eyes as Midnight eagerly bites her lip. "I'll pass!" she

your progress," Neumann says, leaning forward to

glaring around at all of us. "We cannot have children and unenrolled girls living in

from the window. Curious, I turn to see him with a huge smile spreading across his

the Captain asks, his face falling at the evidence of a new undesired

here," Jesse says with a laugh, waving us

Baffled, I glance up at Jackson, who just shrugs at me, and then together - followed

-

god!" I gasp, my hands immediately flying

spring to my eyes and I spin away from the window, dashing for

running across the lawn at the base of the castle. "Mom, are you

from her as she sees me coming with my entourage of family and professors

calls,

at her, distracted instead by the four houses that are being removed from their spots on a train

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