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center at my forehead.
    “ Oh no! Shot
through the skull!” Dropping my weapon, I fake death and plummet
ten feet to the ground, where a nest of ivy breaks my fall. Tameeka
and the guys come out of their hidings and start howling and
dancing around me like Indians around a bonfire. My team stands
aside, making disappointed faces.
    Great. Now I have to catch a boar that we can
skin and roast over the fire tonight. The glowing orange sun stands
low already. Better hurry.
    Wrestling free from the ivy tendrils, I glide
up and shout back to the Lost Boys, “Start the fire! I shall be
back in an hour.”
    Neverland is silent beneath me. There’s no
rustling, no cries, nothing that gives away the hideout of dinner.
My stomach rumbles. Hunting hungry is no fun. Sinking until only a
couple of meters are between the tops of the trees and me, I glide
to the borders of the jungle. Wild boars are known to come out at
twilight and gather at the bottom of the volcano, but the only boar
I find there is Hook. And his first, second, and third mate.
    With a grin
on my face, I land next to them, stealing my brother’s hat as I
keep pace with him. “Where are we going?”
    James pulls the hat off my head and shoves me
hard against my shoulder, growling. I tip sideways. “Nice seeing
you too,” I reply.
    “If you want to hang out with pirates, get
your own hat. Ever touch mine again and I’ll cut off your hand.”
Now he turns to me and smiles. “We’re going to the volcano.”
    “Yeah, I figured that from your determined
stride. What’s up? Have you talked to fairies today?”
    “Yes, to one of them.”
    “And what did she say?”
    “ She said,
bring me a fucking rainbow.”
    “Oh.” I scratch my head. “That’s bitter.”
    “You wouldn’t know where by any luck…” Giving
me a sidelong glance he shakes his head and mumbles, “No, you
wouldn’t.”
    “Know how to catch a rainbow?” I ask. He’s
right. I have no freaking idea. “What does she need one for
anyway?”
    James shrugs
and starts to climb the steeper part of the volcano side. The men
and I follow him. “She didn’t say. Only wants me to bring her one
or, as it seems, I won’t see Angel again.”
    A feeling of
pity for him creeps over me. Considering the torn look on his face,
there must be a tough battle going on inside him. Not bothered with
climbing, I fly to the top and wait for the pirates to join me
there. James wears a strange expression when he faces me again,
even more so does Smee. I wonder what they’ve been talking about on
the climb. I get the feeling I missed something important. Should
this worry me? I grin at Hook’s face. Nah…
    “Great. You made it, Captain,” I cheer for
him and the crew. “Only took you half an hour.”
    “Shut up and rather help me find a way to
capture one of those bloody rainbows.”
    Neverland is tinted in sunset gold, our
shadows expanded to a foreboding length. Obviously, Hook missed
that little fact. I frown at him. “Not that I would know how
exactly to do that, but aren’t you forgetting something?”
    “Like what?”
    I shrug and roll my eyes. “I don’t know.
Maybe that the show of rainbows won’t start until midnight? Which
means you still have to wait—let me see…” To mock him I pull our
father’s pocket watch from my breast pocket and push the tiny
button that makes it snap open. “Yep. We can have a powwow for five
more hours.”
    James’ eyes start to glint. I’ve seen this
look of his before. Slowly pushing the watch closed, I lower my
chin and take a deliberated step back. “What are you up to?”
    His expression changes fast. A smile appears.
Not one that looks inviting, but the sudden greed is gone. “Don’t
be stupid, Peter. I’m not going to steal that watch from you.”
    “No?” I relax a little. “That’s good
then.”
    “I want you to throw it into the
volcano.”
    “ What?” I
don’t know what happened to him in the fairy forest today, but it
certainly