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device.”
    “Yeah,” said Dan. “And I   could   actually be Justin Bieber, only with a better haircut.”
    “There’s nothing we can do about it now,” she said. “But we can try and narrow down the location of relevant
    subduction zones. That will tell us where the  Vespers  may  have   located  the Doomsday device.”
    “Good idea,” said Jake. “Let me help you.” He was sitting next to Amy and

    simply eased up the armrest separating
    them and moved closer to her.
    “Thanks, Jake,” said Amy, smiling at him. “You’re really good at helping.”
    Dan watched all this with an
    incredulous look. He really did want to throw up. He actually stuck a finger down his throat and made a gagging noise.
    Amy   ignored   this   and   said, “Subduction zones, fortunately, aren’t all that plentiful. And in the United States they are pretty few in number. They’re mostly along the coasts.”
    Atticus said, “That’s still a lot of ground to cover. And we don’t have much time.” He looked out the window again and  observed  the  ominous   celestial happenings.
    Amy’s phone buzzed as an e-mail

    came in.
    Dan looked at the device like it was
    a rattlesnake poised to plunge its fangs
    into him.
    “Please don’t let that be Vesper One telling us someone else is dead,” he muttered.
    Amy picked up the phone. “It’s from Evan.” She read the e-mail and her jawdropped nearly to the table. “Omigod.”
    “What is it?” asked Jake, who wastrying to read the tiny screen.
    Amy let out a long breath and tearsfilled her eyes. “Phoenix managed toescape from the Vespers. That’s why hewasn’t on the screen with the others.”
    Jake   exclaimed,   “Way   to   go,
    Phoenix!”
    Amy looked at him. She didn’t know

    Phoenix all that well. He had not been abig part of the Cahill family. But he wasonly twelve and Amy liked him, and whenshe had thought he was dead, she had felttremendous guilt. Now she just feltstupendous relief.
    “Where is he?” Dan asked quickly.
    “At a motel near the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. Evan and Ian are on a plane right now to get him. Phoenix says he can lead them to thehostages. Evan sent me the address of themotel where they’ll be. I’m going to e-mail him back now and tell him that he
    needs to get the police involved. I know that sort of goes against the Cahill way of doing things. But I’m afraid if they go after the  hostages  alone,  they’ll   end  up captured, too.”

    Dan said, “So we need to get on aplane and fly to Washington. Let’s get offthe train at the airport near Baltimore.”
    “No,” said Amy. “We can’t do that.”
    Dan looked stunned. “What are youtalking about? Two minutes ago we had noclue where the Doomsday device was. Orwhere the hostages were. Now we know. The Cascades, I’m sure, has subductionzones.”
    Jake was hitting computer keys withdizzying speed. He read the screen andlooked up. “There is an enormoussubduction zone located right off the coastof Washington State,” he said.
    “Okay,” said Dan triumphantly. “Sowe kill two birds with one stone. Doomsday device and the hostages. We’refinally a step ahead of the Vespers. We

    have to go for it.”
    “What we have to do,” countered Amy, “is find out why Isabel Kabra is going to DC.”
    “What does it matter?” exclaimed
    Dan. “And it might be a trap. Or this couldjust be a wild-goose chase.”
    “She had no reason to believe thatwe could hack into her files,” pointed out Amy. “And why lead us on a wild-goosechase when, as far as she knows, we haveno idea where the hostages or the Doomsday device are? If she’s going to DC at such a critical time, it must be for avery good reason.”
    “I agree with Amy,” said Jake.
    “Of course you do!” snapped anexasperated Dan. “Because you’re, like,so in loooove with her.”

    “Dan!” said Amy sharply, but she was also