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With her eyes still closed, Evee said, “Big heads. Lots of big heads. Color, too. Fun colors.”
Gilly felt herself frown. What she saw when trying to connect with Evee and Moose didn’t make sense. It was like she’d entered a carnival, and they were standing, talking in the middle of a midway. She heard warped music, saw clowns with big heads, and, of course, every color of the rainbow decorated the rides that made up the carnival.
“People walking, talking,” Evee continued, eyes still closed and moving beneath her lids. “Surprised voices. Excited voices. Wheels. Lotsa wheels and big heads.”
Still seeing the same setting, Gilly opened her eyes, frustrated. She let go of Evee’s hands, which immediately broke the trance her sister had been in.
“Anything?” Evee asked hopefully.
“Nothing that made a damn lick of sense,” Gilly said. “Moose kept saying big heads, colors, surprised voices and something about wheels. The only thing I saw when attempting to connect to you and his voice was a carnival. You know, midway, rides, clowns, the whole bit.”
From the doorway, Nikoli asked, “Are there any carnivals in town right now?”
“Not that I know of,” Gilly said. “But that’s not something I’d usually track. If anyone would know about a carnival being in or around town, it would be Taka. She goes to all of them. Sort of like a big kid. Rides all the rides, eats cotton candy until she pukes. The whole ball of wax.”
“Then we should ask her if she knows of any,” Evee said.
Gilly groaned. “I’ve had my row with the Elders already today.”
“What?” Evee asked. “Did you get into an argument with them?”
“Kinda,” Gilly said. “I told Arabella off.”
“Gilly!”
“Well, she’d asked for it. They all did, except for Taka, I guess. She was on the fence during the argument, like always.”
“What was the argument about?” Lucien asked from the doorway.
“Nothing that means anything right now,” Gilly said and shot a quick look at Gavril, who lifted a brow.
“Abigail François,” Evee said with a look of incredulity. “You didn’t.”
Gilly gave her an innocent look. “Didn’t what?”
“You know what. The last time we were all together with the Elders, they reamed Viv and me for being intimate, sexually or otherwise, with our Benders. They warned us that the intimacy might very well be the cause of all the catastrophes we’ve been experiencing.”
“Yeah, and?”
“Don’t and me,” Evee said. She looked from Gavril to Gilly. “The two of you had sex, didn’t you?”
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