I pause when I see Silas asleep on the couch in the nearby TV room. A blanket is haphazardly tossed over him. "Why is he sleeping here? I thought his paranoia prevented that." Baelfire looks at me, then Silas, then back at me like he's trying to decide whether to tell me the truth. "It's nothing. He's fine." "Why wouldn't he be?" I ask more menacingly than I intended. Because if another one of them is hurt, I'm going to snap. Bael glances behind me at Crypt, and I look back just in time to see Crypt shaking his head. He quickly gives me an innocent smile as if he wasn't just telling the
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