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chapter four.
WHEN HEATHER TAKEN MARCUS to the rendezvous point, it was without a word that she disappeared into the darkness of the city ( as if she didn't want to see her Kings Dominion comrades again ).
In reality, the girl wasn't far away, perched on top of a house, just checking that the boy wouldn't run off before Saya took over.
Heather saw Marcus's mouth open as he turned to look over his shoulder. He no longer felt the icy stare of the little blue eyes behind him. Marcus simply wanted to make sure she was still there. Suddenly, his mouth closed again. The boy had just realized that Heather had vanished into thin air a few minutes ago.
She'd gone.
He could feel it. The hairs on the back of his neck stood on end as a swift current of icy air passed through him. Someone was watching him, he was sure.
So the boy looked up into the darkness. He didn't really know where to look, but he tried anyway. He knew there were two little eyes watching him.
He could feel it through his whole being.
Marcus caught sight of a human form hidden in the darkness. He squinted to make out the shape, but to no avail.
Suddenly, his body turned cold. In the moonlight, the boy saw two piercing blue eyes staring down at him from the top of a house.
Marcus quickly rubbed his eyes and looked back at the place.
But the shape had disappeared, leaving the boy with a strange impression.
Had he been dreaming? How had the shape managed to get all the way to the top?
It didn't really matter, did it?
A few minutes later, Marcus was back with the four youngsters. Don't you remember? The idiots who had kidnapped him a few hours earlier. So, he listened ( with little attention ) to a young Asian girl's speech on Kings Dominion rules.
Then, out of nowhere, a strange man led him down a secret passageway to the school.
And now it was Master Lin's turn to explain the hisotry of his ancestors and this mysterious place.
To tell the truth, Marcus had received so much intormation in less than 24 hours that he was beginning to feel tired, this long day was becoming interminable, espcially on an empty stomach.
Marcus wanted to rest on a comfortable bed.
Or just a dirty place to sleep for a few hours.
"If you do as I say. . . I'll give your rage a voice loud enough to be heard around the world," Master Lin finished, opening a small chest.
The boy stepped forwards to discover a neatly folded uniform.
With a mischievous smile and eyes sparkling with an indiscernible gleam, Marcus replied :
