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Question 1

All I needed was to make this last leap over the museum’s west wing, then drop down to pick the lock on the window.

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Question 2

People called the folk who worked in the aether shops “haunts for a good reason: they looked like living ghosts.

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Question 3

Take in a clutch of young girls from the orphanage, then squeeze every scrap of copper and silver out of us that she could.

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Question 4

I needed coin and no one was going to notice a few missing trinkets.

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Question 5

His spindly body was bent nearly double, as he traced something - rune marks?- in an oval around the blade.

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Question 6

That was why she was so fired up about making new laws to protect workers.

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Question 7

Rust it.

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Question 8

It was encased in a shimmering prison of ice.

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Question 9

I yelped as the weapon gently lowered me onto the rooftop.

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Question 10

The head and beak curved out along the base of the blade, glittering with two deep blue sapphire eyes.

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Question 11

You don’t understand the sacrifices I’ve made in order to teach you children the skills you need to survive in this world.

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Question 12

It was just enough to make the locket at the end slide out from her lacy collar.

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Question 13

I had to find a way to pay her back.

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Question 14

So far it had been careful not to slice me, but just having it there was throwing me off.

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Question 15

Not that I was some sort of noble hero who only stole from nasty folk who deserved it.

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Question 16

Yes, right, you were helpful getting me out of that mess, but you also got me into it in the first place, I said.

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Question 17

I doubted anyone had noticed me yet, but that would change if a great hulking statue fell over the edge of the building.

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Question 18

I was the one who’d nearly gotten her killed.

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Question 19

It bobbed up, doing a sort of pirouette over my head, then dipping as if bowing to the crowd.

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Question 20

The copper web had plastered me up against the street cleaner, trapping me between two of its vicious-looking rollers.

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Question 21

Maybe it might even be willing to stay with me, a nobody thief.

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Question 22

If there was one thing in the whole world that I could never, ever be, it was a hero.

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Question 23

You’re the one who set it off with your magic web and “unexpected effects.”

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Question 24

You summoned a freezing bolt last night!

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Question 25

Common sense caught up with me, dragging me back into the world where I had debts and couldn't, wouldn't trust anyone.

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Question 26

Either way, when you see it light up, come meet me on the roof of the Royal Museum.

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Question 27

She was still too young to enlist as a cadet, but I knew she was saving every scrap of coin she could to pay the substantial fees for the entrance exam and uniform.

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Question 28

Well, then, I guess you'd better make it a really excellent present.

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Question 29

A minute later I was waking back out of the shop carrying a lovely pale green hatbox containing the blue cap, minus its star.

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Question 30

After years of feeling helpless, like I had to wring every tiny bit of good fortune out of the wet rag of my life, it was nice to have the power to do something.

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Question 31

But the miners are refusing to enter the mine because they say there's a monster in it.

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Question 32

It's my prototype convertible ascot rain cloak.

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Question 33

If you have power, and you don't use it to do good, you're as much the enemy as the folks who use their power to do ill.

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Question 34

Call it magic if you want, but it's really just science with rules we don't completely understand.

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Question 35

But his dreams were like dazzlebugs: so bright and flashy that they kept him from seeing the rest of the world like it really was.

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Question 36

The vortex generator gave a loud pop and opened, revealing a whirling twist of darkness.

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Question 37

I'm going to run some tests on this red steel.

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Question 38

Squinting, I could just barely make out the symbols etched into the blade itself.

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Question 39

Where two sapphire eyes had once winked at me, now there was only one.

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Question 40

Clear tubes spiraled in the air and looped out along the walls, weaving in complex patterns as they carried the bubbling torrent of soda here and there.

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Question 41

Before I could move, before I could even shout out a warning, he tore something from the very heart of the device: an intricate contraption of tubes and crystals that pulsed with an aetheric glow.

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Question 42

I gritted my teeth, trying to spot Dark Spectacles, but I'd lost him in the bubble-filled chaos.

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Question 43

My flowing black cloak snapped, abruptly closing around me like a clamshell.

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Question 44

Didn't you just promise your brother to give up heroing?

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Question 45

It's big enough to boil a watermelon.

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Question 46

All you need to do is fly around the city until it starts making noise, and then go in the direction that makes it get louder!

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Question 47

As I swung the tracker in a slow arc toward the left, the wailing increased.

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Question 48

The tubes were made of crystal, which meant I could see very clearly the swirl of glimmering dust inside.

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Question 49

I set the gold rook down beside the receipt with a satisfying clunk.

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Question 50

It's worth what I say it is, if you want to get your mother's locket back.

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Question 51

So if we follow the tubes, we could figure out where the waste is coming from.

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Question 52

Project Red will be fully functional on the day of the coronation.

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Question 53

The union will be the perfect scapegoat, and we might just kill two birds with one crimson stone.

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Question 54

By the time he'd given a startled yelp, his entire torso and legs were sheathed in ice.

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Question 55

We never know our own strength until the world tests us, Mum had told me once.

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Question 56

Aside from the wheels, he looked like any other dog, slobbery and furry and far too eager to love anyone he could.

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Question 57

They were the most comfortable, most lovely clothes I'd ever worn.

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Question 58

Because being his friend was so impossible.

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Question 59

The symbols represent different qualities and properties - ingredients - and when you combine them in the right way, you generate effects.

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Question 60

It was late by the time I crept back into the boardinghouse.

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Question 61

The last thing I needed was to accidentally show off my other new outfit.

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Question 62

I, er, might've slipped a batch of sleeping powder into her favorite perfume atomizer the other day.

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Question 63

I flung the door open and charged in to find the other girls gathered there, all of them staring in horror at a frail, luminous gleam that drifted near the center of the room.

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Question 64

Was I imagining things, or were we flying there for a moment?

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Question 65

And the good new is, I think I managed to stabilize everyone for now.

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Question 66

Why would it be dangerous for me to know I'm your best friend?

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Question 67

There's a line between making the world better, versus just making it what you want it to be.

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Question 68

If there was ever a moment for my third power to show itself, this was it.

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Question 69

Except...there was someone lying on the floor, not far from me, lanky limbs spread-eagled across the tiles, held in place by a rope-net.

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Question 70

Except...there was someone lying on the floor, not far from me, lanky limbs spread-eagled across the tiles, held in place by a rope-net.

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Question 71

The runes flared so bright, my eyes filled with stars.

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Question 72

The new factory will be ready tomorrow, just in time for the coronation jubilee.

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Question 73

The fingers around my chest tightened.

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Question 74

Dimly, I heard something that sounded like a growl, followed by ferocious yipping, then a crackling clap like thunder.

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Question 75

If I couldn't do the same, then I had lost something a lot more valuable than gold.

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Question 76

Assuming your connection rune works, I'll be ready to broadcast my article over the ephemeras.

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Question 77

It's better than sacrificing your own brother for the sake of power!

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Question 78

But I was a pretty good thief for the two years before that, and right now, that's what really matters.

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Question 79

Don't worry, it's just a minor beverage malfunction!

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Question 80

It was my choice.

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Question 81

The only question was: Did I believe I had the strength to try?

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Question 82

That was where I needed to strike.

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Question 83

Reunited, our bond was even stronger than it had been before.

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Question 84

Metal clashed on metal, sending me flying away like a pitiful bird bouncing off a glass window.

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Question 85

I'm pretty sure the only way to unmake him now is to hit all six of them at the same exact time.

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Question 86

Five more gems winked up, black, white, gold, green, red.

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Question 87

Because the world needed more than just one hero.

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