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down the pain that was radiating out of my chest, threatening to drive the tears to my eyes again.   I wondered if they were going to knock him out with that amber liquid again.   Thinking of him being drugged and put on that plane was killing me.   I had been with Tony practically every day for the past two years, and there was a good reason for that.   I loved him like a brother – more than a regular brother though – like a twin or something.  
    I had to stop thinking about him like this or I was going to drive myself crazy.   “So what’s the plan for tomorrow?” I asked, trying to distract myself.
    “I will come to collect you at the main hall tomorrow for your first day of training.   After that, you will know where to go and I will expect you to meet me there.   Training begins at six in the morning.   We break for lunch ... ”
    I didn’t hear anything she said after ‘six in the morning’.   I interrupted her. “Um, excuse me, did you say six in the morning?   As in six a.m.?”
    “Yes.   We break for lunch at noon.   Then we train from one o’clock until six at night.   You have a one-hour break before dinner is served in the main hall.   Someone else will come to collect you for dinner, and after today you will be expected to get yourself to the main hall for meals without assistance.”
    I was shaking my head slowly.   “You should have mentioned that training schedule before giving me that amulet.”   I felt like I’d gotten suckered again.   Fuckers .
    Céline abruptly stopped walking and turned to me, her eyebrow raised.   “You would choose not to become fae because we start training at six in the morning?”
    When she put it like that, it did kind of sound stupid.   But what the hell?   Six o’clock in the morning?   Nobody in their right minds got up that early unless they had to.  
    I self-consciously shrugged my shoulders.   “Maybe.”   I wasn’t ready to admit it was immature.   I’m actually okay with being an immature seventeen year old.   The earliest I ever got up for school was seven.   I had my ultra-low-maintenance hair-in-a-ponytail ‘do that made getting out the door by eight much easier.   I wonder how late I could sleep and still be out the door by six?
    Céline continued walking, stopping just a few doors down.   “Here we are.”   She pushed on the door she was standing in front of, revealing a small, windowless room with stone walls and floors, just big enough for a single bed, a side table, a sink, and a chest of drawers with a small silver tray on top and a mirror above.   “The bathrooms are down the hall that way, on the left.”
    We were interrupted by sounds coming from the hall behind us where we had just come from.   Jared appeared followed closely by Chase.   “Your room is right here.”
    They stopped at the door next to mine.   I got a big grin on my face.   I was so happy that at least one of my friends was going to be close by.   Chase saw me and nodded in recognition.   I sighed.   I guess there probably weren’t going to be any late-night gossip sessions with this neighbor.   I wished Becky were there instead.   It’s not that I didn’t like Chase – it’s just that I didn’t really enjoy chatting with people who I know didn’t like talking back.   Still, he was a good guy to have around.   I wondered if he was being put by me because of what Dardennes said in the meeting – that I needed a daemon.   Hmmm ...
    Céline and I stepped into my room to make space for the guys to get by – Jared was showing Chase where the guys’ bathroom was.   I was relieved to find that they did not have unisex bathrooms here.   I may be bold, but I prefer to keep my personal bathroom habits as private as possible, even in a dorm-type situation, which is what this felt like.
    “You will find clothing that fits you in the drawers there.   There is a toothbrush and toothpaste, a brush, and other things you might