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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Penulis: Raven Sinclair
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{Lyra}

I stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around my neck, the damp ends of my now-brown hair dripping onto the hem of my oversized shirt. I patted them softly, squinting at my reflection in the mirror above the hallway console.

The box had said ‘Warm Chestnut.’ a freaking lie, it was more like ‘Mediocre Brown that Screams Average Citizen number 5.’ But I guess that’s what you get from buying dye at a 24 hour gas station in the middle of nowhere.

“I can work with this,” I muttered, flipping my hair forward, then I grabbed the hairdryer, plugging it in, and cranked it to max. The dryer screamed to life, letting out a blast of hot air, and I bent my head, fluffing and drying for like eight seconds.

Then the lights blinked, flickering for a while, and then everything went dead.

“No, no, no!” I whined, smacking the dryer like it could fix the entire grid. I threw the dryer onto the counter and yelled, “Isaac!”

“Yeah?” he hollered from somewhere in the house, probably on his
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