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At Rohan’s request, the magpies ceased pecking at him… for now. Their chittering had an almost mocking tone to it, as if they prided themselves on being able to enter the school without much difficulty. Or perhaps they were simply birds, without the intelligence that the mage afforded to them. 

One of them flew off his shoulder and landed on the head. 

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[COLOR=9A5B8A]Grimoire:[/color] N/A
[COLOR=9A5B8A]Skills:[/color] N/A
[COLOR=9A5B8A]Wild Magic Build Up:[/color] triggers on a 1
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Relief filled him as Cassie reassured everyone that she was fine, removing herself from Jake’s hold and standing up again under her own power. He didn’t know what he would have done had something happened to her - had something happened to any one of them. They were all his dearest friends in the world, and as no one had protested his idea of standing guard while they slept, he planned to do exactly that tonight. It would be so fun, having all the people he loved most in the world all together, too! They just needed Nicky and Willow and Cal and it would be complete! And then, his eyes widened. 

Rohan had said if the birds could get inside, something else could get inside. [COLOR=9A5B8A]“Should we warn the others, then? They don’t know that there’s a magpie sized killer on the loose!”[/color] His face paled, the color draining from his face in a manner of seconds. [COLOR=9A5B8A]“Nicky needs to know! And Willow! And Cal! What if it got them? Oh no, oh no, I don’t like that - that isn’t fun, that isn’t good, we need to make sure that everyone is safe before anything bad happens.”[/color] His chest felt strangely tight, his fingertips ice cold, and he heard a ringing noise that hadn’t been there before. 

He was more than ready to leave the dungeons and go back upstairs, desperate to get eyes on the others in case Rohan was right. [COLOR=9A5B8A]“I can stand guard while you look at the body!”[/color] The tightness in his chest was relieved slightly by that idea. He didn’t know what it would be like when Finley rode the blood - he didn’t know that blood could transport people - but he knew that his friends needed him now more than ever. And he had already taken a turn playing with Frankie, he could let someone else do it.