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Won’t he? “I…I don’t want to go.”
    “Ahh, come on, Eve. You are the one always wanting a new adventure, after all. Besides, it’d be a lot more fun with you.”
    Eve shook her head and backed towards the study door. “No, no, I don’t think I want to. Mrs. Tassi wouldn’t let me anyway.”
    “Are you sure, Eve?”
    “Yes, I’m sure. Well…good night.” Eve turned and ran out of the house.
    Max stared after Eve. “What got in to her?”
    Mr. Penna stood and placed a hand on Max’s shoulder. “Moenia is a very different place from our little village, Maxwell. You will find that out for yourself soon enough. Well, we both better start packing. The sun’s already set and we have an early start tomorrow.”
    Max ran to his room to begin packing. I finally get to see Protector Headquarters, but I wish Eve was coming with us. We’ve done everything together. Maybe she didn’t want to be around Tyco that long. He was rather mean to her today, more so than usual, but she usually ignores him. I guess I’ll have to tell her about it when I get back. I can’t pass this up, it’s another step closer to dad.
    After finishing packing, Max lay late into the night with dreams of standing with other Protectors, ready to respond to anyone in need of help.

 
     
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER THREE
     
     
    Mrs. Tassi bustled about the cafe setting up tables. “Sun will be comin’ up soon.”
    “Yeah,” murmured Eve. She sat in a chair, arms wrapped around her legs, her knees pulled up to her chest.
    Mrs. Tassi stopped for a moment. “I’m sure I can find someone to help out here for a few weeks.”
    Eve’s mind wandered to some far off place. “I can’t help him out there.”
    Mrs. Tassi turned to face Eve. “I seem to recall a little girl who didn’t want something to be found; her teeth bared, claws extended, ready to take on a whole horde of bandits.” A little smirk, the one Eve had unknowingly copied over the years, formed on Mrs. Tassi’s lips. “I don’t think the fact she might not be able to actually take them on ever entered her mind.”
    Eve looked up at Mrs. Tassi. “I didn’t know what I was doing.”
    “You knew you aimed to protect Max, no matter the cost.” Mrs. Tassi sat down in front of Eve. “And from what you said about that messenger, you may need to do it again.” Mrs. Tassi gently took one of Eve’s hands. “What’s stopping you?”
    Eve started to whimper. She looked down at the floor. “Nobody cares about the laws against the lacarna out here, but in the city I’ll be watched wherever I go. To make it worse, Max is going to the Protector’s Headquarters. I can’t go there. I won’t be able to help him, and when Max finds out that I’m the enemy; that Protectors don’t associate with lacarna…” Eve shook her head. “If I go, I’ll only be sent away. It’s easier to stay here. Then I won’t have to see him when he finds out about the lacarna…about me.”
    Eve brought her tail around, tightly grabbed hold of it with her free hand, and softly cried. Mrs. Tassi, still holding onto Eve’s right hand, leaned over and put her arm around Eve’s shoulders.
    “Do you honestly think that boy would send you, his best friend, away?”
    “He has to if he wants to become a Protector.”
    “Eve, I thought you had figured out by now that people always do what they want to. If anyone says someone made them, it’s only because they were too weak to do anything else. Think about Max’s father. Did you ever see him back down, even in the end? Then there is Chiron, who has cared for Max all these years. He certainly broke rules when he helped us adopt you, a lacarna.
    Eve’s ears perked up, she stifled a sob. “What does Mr. Penna have to do with me?”
    “I don’t know much, but he worked for the Protectors when he helped us get you out of that awful market. The rest you need to ask him about.”
    Eve slouched. “But, just because you guys broke the rules doesn’t