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Nose shook his head. ‘You must come with us.’
    ‘No,’ Nico insisted. He raised his hands again and, this time, I was certain he was going to try and whip Knife Man’s weapon away using telekinesis.
    But before Nico could act, Knife Man leaped forward. He grabbed my arm and twisted me round. I felt the cold press of metal on my skin. Cal and Nico stared, helpless, at the blade against my
throat.
    I froze.
    ‘You come with us,’ Knife Man said.
    My stomach lurched, sickeningly, into my chest.
    Nico thrust out his hand and twisted it. He was definitely trying to wrench the knife away using telekinesis, but the man was gripping it too hard. Cal hesitated, clearly torn between flying
away to sound the alarm and staying to help me.
    ‘Don’t hurt her,’ he cried out.
    ‘Move,’ Broken Nose ordered. ‘Or we kill the girl.’
    Knife Man spun me around, his weapon still against my throat. He shoved me forward.
    I had no choice but to let him lead us away.
    I stumbled across the road, the knife cold on my skin. I didn’t dare look round to see if the others were okay. Both boys were talking at once, Nico demanding that the men let us go and
Cal simply imploring them not to hurt me.
    A moment later we were back at the road opposite the church. The town was starting to stir, the morning air crisp and clear. A woman appeared outside a house with a basketful of washing to hang
on the line. When she saw us, she scuttled back inside. As we passed the church, I glanced along the far side of the building.
    The large green door from my vision was there .
    ‘No.’ The word burst out of me. Why hadn’t I insisted we looked around here properly before? I’d been so certain that my vision had skipped ahead from the church to a
different place entirely, I hadn’t considered that the green door might simply be on a different part of the building.
    ‘What’s the matter?’ Nico asked urgently.
    ‘The green door I saw earlier,’ I said. ‘It’s on the side of the church.’
    ‘Quiet.’ Knife Man pressed the metal tip of his weapon against my throat. I gasped with terror, my mind spinning. In trying to find out about Medusix we appeared to have walked into
another, equally dangerous, situation.
    ‘Where are you taking us?’ Cal demanded.
    ‘Silence,’ Broken Nose ordered.
    I chewed anxiously on my lip. We’d left Ed and Dylan back by the trees just a moment ago. Ed would attempt to contact us by remote telepathy in a few minutes. Unless Nico and Cal could
somehow get the knife off my captor, he was our best chance for escape.
    We left the church behind and turned onto a street full of shops and cafés. Most of these were either closed or boarded-up. Knife Man pushed me inside the second café on the right.
It was empty – a small room with a bar and food counter at one end and a clutch of tables and chairs by the window.
    Across the room and down some stairs to a cellar. In the sudden darkness I could just make out a dusty space filled with crates and boxes, then through to the tiny, empty room behind. Knife Man
shoved me through the door. I spun round in time to see Nico and Cal being hurled in after me and then the door slammed shut on us with a bang.
    We were locked in.
    Cal rushed over. ‘Ketts, are you all right?’ I nodded.
    Nico thumped the door with his fist. ‘Let us out!’ he yelled.
    I looked around. The room was completely bare – stone floors and concrete walls painted a dirty shade of grey. It wasn’t large – maybe three metres square. And there was just
one small window, high up on the far wall. Cal followed my gaze. A second later he zoomed off the ground. He hovered, two metres off the ground, peering closely at the glass. He prodded the handle
with his fingers.
    ‘Locked,’ he said.
    ‘Get me up there,’ Nico ordered. ‘I’ll sort that.’ He grinned at me. ‘Lucky you’re here with me rather than Ed or Dylan.’
    ‘Or Amy,’ I said.
    The smile fell from Nico’s face at