“I don’t know, I was kind of sedated, but from what he said, the Old One stopped controlling him just before he could,” she said, looking away again. “Here’s the weird thing: I’m not sure we’d have escaped if he hadn’t dragoned out. That Agent Cole lady? I’m not a fan.”

“Me either,” Fort said. “How did she catch you? I thought you were hiding in the airport.”

She made a face. “Remember how she told you that they’d completed their search in terminals four and five of Heathrow Airport? That was a lie. We came out, thinking we were safe, and BAM, they grabbed us.”

Fort’s eyes widened. “She used me to capture you?”

“She’s a tricky one,” Sierra said, sighing as she sat down on the bed next to him. “The only good thing that came of it all was that they brought us to the UK school for interrogation, since it was closer, and they didn’t want to chance bringing us back to the U.S. So at least they saved us some time, having to find it for ourselves!”

“That’s where you are now, the UK school?” Fort asked. “Did you see Cyrus? He and Dr. Opps were heading there…”

She nodded. “Both of them. Dr. Opps came through, trying to convince Agent Cole to release us, but she of course refused. I think she was about to throw him in jail for a while there. But after Damian dragoned out, we freed ourselves, and I decided to remind her of her dream to go to art school instead of staying on as a federal agent.” She grinned widely. “I think she quit and is applying to one as we speak.”

“I’m so glad you’re okay,” Fort said. “I tried reaching you so many times. If I’d known you were captured—”

“You would have tried to come find us, but wouldn’t have known where. That’s one reason they took us to the UK school. No one here other than Dr. Opps or Cyrus knew where it was, so your little teleportation stunt wouldn’t get you there.”

“So do you have the book of Clairvoyance?” Fort asked, trying not to let his concern for his father overwhelm him.

“I told you, don’t worry about him!” Sierra said. “He’ll be fine. And no, we don’t have the book yet. Apparently it went missing when the kids here went a little bit insane after studying it. Maybe one of them stole the book and hid it, because none of the administrators know where it is. And since the students aren’t really thinking clearly, I can’t read their minds to figure out where it is.”

“Wow,” Fort said. “And Cyrus wasn’t any help?”