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  91. TheEVERAFTER
  92. By Amanda Hocking

“Finn, you could help them down,” I suggested before anyone could say anything more about me getting out of here. “You and Tove can lead them safely.”

“Are you going down?” Rikky interjected, and wiped her forehead with the back of her arm. “I’ve got some kids ready to go.” She motioned to three children under the age of seven with various limbs wrapped and splinted.

“Yeah, I got them,” Finn said without hesitation, then looked back at Tove. “You can walk yourself down, right?”

Tove slowly got to his feet and nodded. “Yeah. Get the kids.”

“What do you need me to do?” Loki asked Rikky.

“Are you staying or going?” she asked him.

Loki didn’t look at me when he answered, “Staying.”

“Great.” Rikky sounded relieved. “You’re strong, right? I’ve got a four-hundred-pound ogre I’m trying to splint. You think you can help with that?”

“Yeah, of course,” he said as he followed her.

I helped Finn get the children situated on a stretcher, and Tove held the flaps open for them as he took the kids outside. I didn’t watch them leave, because I didn’t want to think about what they were walking into, and if they would make it out of the city.

Minnie started screaming at the other side of the tent, and I ran over to see smaller spiders—these were only the size of a small cat—crawling under the tarp.

Pan rushed over to help her, stomping on the arachnids, and Minnie swatted at them with a long pair of medical clamps. I used my psychic mind slap to pop a few of them, but they were coming so fast. My head throbbed in pain as I struggled to keep up with them.

They finally stopped coming in, but I could see the long legs poking into the tarp as they climbed over the tent. I slumped back against a cart, taking a moment to breathe and let my head rest.

Then I heard Finn yelling, the panic in his voice unmistakable. I ran out the front flaps, barely stopping a spider—squashing it with my foot this time—before it pounced on me.

“We’re trapped!” Finn shouted when he saw me. He was running, pulling the stretcher of children behind him. He held it by the handles on one side and let the handles on the other drag on the ground behind him.

“What?” I asked, but my words were drowned out by the sound of the wyrm roaring.

I looked up, and through the haze, I saw the serpentine dragon thrashing at the sky. A burst of flame from its mouth bowed, as if stopped by an invisible curved wall.

“We can’t get out!” Finn yelled.

As the wyrm raged against the sky, I finally understood. We were trapped under a dome with all the monsters, none of us able to escape.

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World Ender

Ulla

“Did it work?” I asked.