Sixty-Nine:
Lancelot Larkin
“What did you do?” I demanded, screeching at him as I watched my boyfriend stab the shapeshifter dragon with a sword. “Why on earth would you stab him? He’s going to kill us!” The shapeshifter named Clampett had thrown his head back, and was throwing fire.We were in The Shadow Market, which meant that there wasn’t much that we could do as far as escaping.
Except for run.
“I stabbed him,” said George, “traditionally, when there is a monster, you stab it!”
“You are the dumbest boy in school!” I shouted. “The only way to kill a shapeshifter is to behead it.”
“But the metal---”
“It will poison him, but it will poison him slowly,” I told him. “Not fast enough!”
I grabbed him by his hand, and the two of us started to run. The Shadow Market was under the
