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The doorbell rang late Saturday evening as I was lounging on the living-room couch.

"Get it," I ordered my twelve year old brother, Blaine.

"Can't," he said. His face was smashed into the side of a throw pillow and drool was leaking from the corner of his mouth. "I'm sleeping."

I rolled my eyes but begrudgingly stood anyway as the doorbell rang again. I straightened my t-shirt as I stood, hoping I didn't look as though I had just been hit by a train.

Ten second later and I opened the door. There was Newt. He grinned guiltily as I took him in; he was drenched head to toe, covered in mud on his back; there was a long cut on his face and feathers were in his hair; his shirt was torn at the shoulder, and his hands were bleeding.

"You'll never believe what just happened to me," Newt said.

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