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Kara,
and she fought hard keep her voice steady. “You mean to put them
back into their cage?”
    “Exactly.”
    “But…” Kara grimaced. The pain was like hot
wax being poured on her wings. But then it subsided a little, and
she was glad that the others had mistakenly read her scowl as
intense determination instead of pain.
    “The archfiends aren’t stupid. I doubt
they’re re going to fall again for whatever trick the legion
used to lock them up in the first place.”
    “Exactly,” said Mr. Patterson again.
    His face brightened. “Which is why it’s
brilliant and why it’s going to work. They won’t be expecting us to try it again.”
    The five guardians all stared at the little
man in stunned silence.
    Mr. Patterson’s eyes narrowed as he surveyed
them all again. He looked a little offended that they didn’t think
his plan was a brilliant one.
    David forced a laugh. “Told you it’d be
crazy—no, it’s insane. We can’t succeed when the archfiends have
seen the plan before.”
    “Not necessarily.” Kara studied the oracle.
“You must have something up your sleeve to go with your brilliant plan. Well?”
    Mr. Patterson spoke feverishly. “To stop the
apocalypse, we must stop the archfiends, and to do that…we must seal them back in their prison.”
    He paused and watched the confused
expressions on the guardians’ faces and decided to elaborate.
“Theoretically, their cage is still there. It still exists. It was
never destroyed but merely opened .”
    Kara shifted excitedly in her chair, her
pain forgotten. “So we can lock them back in. This is good, right?
But can we actually do it?”
    Her enthusiasm died as she looked at
Peter.
    “But how? The key was lost…they took it and
have probably destroyed it by now.”
    Peter looked as if he were reliving the
savage imp attack that had nearly cost him his angel life.
    Mr. Patterson nodded and held up a finger.
“Yes, the key to their cage was destroyed, but there is another way.”
    Glad to have their fullest attention now, he
continued excitedly. “The archfiends’ enclosure was originally
secured by five different seals or five different locks if you
will. The first seal was broken with the Keeper’s key which
unlocked the prison.”
    Everyone’s eyes turned to Peter.
    “But, as I said before, for the archfiends
to regain their strength in our worlds, the other four seals must be broken. And since the four knights have the ability
to break the remaining four seals, we believe if we can stop the
knights, then the archfiends will be forced back into
their abysmal prison.”
    Silence fell, and then Kara asked, “And
why’s that exactly?”
    “The life-force that protects us is bound to
the seals. If a knight fails to break his seal, part of the prison
wall will rebuild itself. If all four of the knights fail, the
archfiends will be forced back into their cage, and the seals will lock the cage forever.”
    Kara gripped the sides of her chair and
straightened herself. “So we need to keep the knights from breaking
the seals. We can win the war if we can actually do this.”
    “That is correct.”
    And then it hit her. If somehow she could
get the archfiends back into their cage, then maybe the infection they had injected in her with would die, too. It
made sense. If the archfiends’ power was linked to the seals, then
they needed to break the seals to complete her transformation. At
last, Kara felt hopeful. She had found the way to reverse the
curse. She felt like she’d been given a giant dose of antibiotics.
She felt great. No, she felt amazing.
    “Don’t get too excited,” said David.
    He began to pace the room but then stopped
and turned around to face the old man. “You said you believe . And you said it a few times. Why do I get the
feeling that part of you isn’t sure that your master plan is going
to work?”
    “Nothing in this life or the next is sure,”
said Mr. Patterson.
    David raised his brows at Mr. Patterson,