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Chapter Twenty Six

CHAPTER TWENTY SIX

If Something Were To Happen

Bryony and Rikki-Tikki hardly missed a practice. The sound of her fists rhythmically hitting against his open palms was both soothing and empowering. Sometimes Syrina would come in and watch, and scream: “Go for his eyes, Bryony! This murderer wants to take you down! Go straight for his eyes!”, but usually it was just Bryony and her very precious Rikki-Tikki.

“Rikki-Tikki, you have become a brother to me,” she told him.

He grinned. “Nothin’ like fighting to make you feel like family.”

It was the evening before Eddie had to play at the station, and they were having an especially lovely practice with fists and feet, and Bryony’s ponytail flying through the air.

In the midst of the delightful mayhem Rikki-Tikki said: “Everybody seems to have been touched by fate so far, except maybe for Eddie. I wonder when his turn will come.”

He watched carefully as Bryony’s eyes lost their starlight glimmer and the bones of her face seemed to press
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