Amber shakes her head, frowning over Poppy’s shoulder as Poppy ties off the last of my stitches. “I don’t know, Jack. This plan feels like a long shot. You’re trusting an untested theory. We could be risking Fleur’s life. We have zero assurances this will work.”

“My theories have held up before.” I tense my leg, testing Poppy’s handiwork as the muscle flexes under the stitches. Our escape from the Observatory—hell, our very survival off the ley lines—was based on a theory. We’ve made it this far. Lyon believed in me. Enough that he and Gaia sacrificed themselves to make sure Fleur and I survived. He prepared for his death, knowing I would come. He left me the letter, the eye, and my smaze for a reason. I have to believe this is the right path. “There’s no undoing what Doug’s done. Doug is Chaos. He’s entropy in action. Eventually, he’s going to break. We have to find a way to untangle his magic from Fleur’s.”

“Then I say we do it.” Julio’s arms loop around Amber so their skin touches. He presses a kiss to her temple and the color returns to her cheeks. She leans back against him, letting him hold some of her weight. “No way are we letting that power-tripping asshole take Fleur down with him.”

Chill admires the wicked retractable barbs on the arrowhead he pulled from my leg. He slaps the bloody thing into my palm like it’s some kind of souvenir. “I’m in. What about you?” he asks Poppy, ruffling her hair as she leans over my thigh, surveying her work.

She offers me a grim smile as she bites down on the thread, snapping it off the spool. “We’re not letting Fleur go through this alone. Of course I’m in.”

“So how do we do it?” Marie asks, leaning against the wall, destroying a piece of spearmint gum with her teeth.

I drag my pant leg down and ease gingerly to my feet. I fish the second transmitter from my pocket and toss it to Chill. “We need a working stasis chamber.”

Marie raises an eyebrow. “You said Fleur demolished the chambers you found in the cavern.”

“The power is still running in the Autumn wing. If Julio and Amber can sniff out an empty dorm room, I can get us in. Chill shouldn’t have any problems getting a stasis chamber online.”

“How do we get the transmitter to Fleur?” Chill asks.

“We find a way to get a message to Doug and use the eye to draw him out. We tell him we’ll only bring the eye if he brings Fleur. That we want to negotiate her release. Then we find a way to pass her the transmitter and haul her out through the ley lines.”