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Chapters (62)
  1. Cover
  2. Full Page Image
  3. Introduction
  4. Advance Praise for Reunion
  5. Dedication
  6. Map
  7. Quote
  8. Prologue
  9. All About Eric Weiss
  10. The Young Magician
  11. From the Wikipedia entry for Middleton:
  12. Where They Used to Live
  13. All About Carrie Keene
  14. The Girl Detective
  15. All About Alana Bright
  16. The Warrior Princess
  17. All About Daniel Sharp IV
  18. The Boy Genius
  19. I’ve Done My Part
  20. The Only Warrior Left
  21. The World Beneath the World
  22. Even Less Fun Now
  23. The Flawless Performance of Innumerable Lines of Code
  24. Like Time-Lapse Photography
  25. You Don’t Have to Go Home but You Can’t Stay Here
  26. This is Where She Gets It
  27. I Never Believed in Prophecies
  28. Normal People Stumble Along
  29. INTERLUDE: The Case of the Candy Cult
  30. That’s How Her Story Ought to Go
  31. Normal Is Whatever You Grow Up With
  32. Even Good Kids Have Their Limits
  33. INTERLUDE: The Menace of the Middleton Monster
  34. Alanis Morissette Irony or the Other Kind
  35. What You Want Is Not the Most Important Thing
  36. INTERLUDE: Trapped in the Goblin’s Lair
  37. The Slowest Person in the Room
  38. INTERLUDE: The Final Secret of Dr. Sax
  39. All Part of King Jeremy’s Land
  40. INTERLUDE: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  41. You Breathed It In, All the Time
  42. INTERLUDE: What Happened
  43. Danny Sharp Doesn’t Believe in Ghosts
  44. Ice and Bottles of Zima
  45. You Were Right All Along
  46. A Lot of Sacrificing to Do Tonight
  47. You Walked Right into It
  48. How Magic Works
  49. Was This Your Master Plan
  50. This Time, I Swear, We Can Do It Right
  51. You’d Think He Would Know Better
  52. Fresh Blood on Its Hands
  53. Any One of a Thousand Different Men
  54. The End of the World over There
  55. These Are Not Ideal Conditions
  56. Lightning and Thunder, Demons and Angels
  57. Into the Jaws of the Dragon
  58. Unafraid at Sunset
  59. Epilogue
  60. Acknowledgments
  61. About the Author
  62. Other Works by Christopher Farnsworth

Little Waldo tags him with a metal can of something to the head. His vision goes blurry and his head spins.

He stumbles forward to the side of the ElectriCar. He pulls open the driver’s side door and hops into the seat. Danny taps the brake (regenerative braking — he thought of it years before anybody else), and presses his thumb to the fingerprint-recognition starter button.

The ElectriCar — one of the only things in the entire damn workshop that is not connected to a computer, because he never thought wi-fi would be something you’d use while driving — starts up and purrs.

Damn right. He built things to last.

He stomps on the accelerator, aiming the car straight at the sealed garage door, barely able to see now.

It occurs to him that this would be an especially stupid way to die.

The car leaps forward and punches through the steel door, already weakened by the acid. A great cloud of green-yellow fumes rolls out behind Danny as he roars through the garage at 75 mph. He makes it ninety feet before he slams through the parking gate, and flattens all four tires going the wrong way over the wrong-way spikes.

Danny skids to a halt in the driveway outside the building as the airbag punches him in the face.

For a moment he hears nothing. He yanks the respirator off, kicks the door open, and gets out of the car. He breathes deeply, and feels a stab of pain in his chest. He’s pretty sure he’s broken at least one of his ribs. He might be concussed. He drops to his knees, suddenly and completely exhausted.

But he’s alive. He won.

Despite everything, his face splits into a grin and he thinks, Let’s see Elon Musk do that.

Then, from inside the workshop, he hears the voice again, very faintly.

“Well done, Danny. Well done. See you again soon.”

Something drops from his pocket as Danny struggles to get back to his feet.

The invitation. Only this time, it’s landed face down.

On the other side, he sees, written in thick, careful block letters:

YOU HAVE TO COME BACK

Again, he thinks, Yeah. No shit.

He picks up the card and begins limping back to the building, already planning, making a list. The fire department will need to get a hazmat team out here. He will need to pack a bag, and arrange a flight.

His phone buzzes and he sees it’s Eric.

The others are already on their way back, Eric tells him. Then he tells Danny the rest.

Formerly the smartest guy in any room, and Danny learns he is the last one to know what’s going on.

Again.

6

I’ve Done My Part