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The music. Silence.

The actors in their incredible costumes. Frozen.

The auditorium full of kids. Dead still.

The only things moving were Marco's ears.

The only sound was Rachel saying, "Almost? Reach back over here again
and I'll -"

Frozen. Still. Motionless. Everything and everyone.

Except the four of us.

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Slowly, cautiously, I stood up.

I looked at Rachel. "Wake Cassie up," I whispered.

Rachel stood up and shoved Cassie's shoulder.

"I'm awake, I'm awake," Cassie said, eyes snapping open. She yawned,
then stopped in mid-yawn and forgot to close her mouth.

"Well, this is unusual," Marco said. "Did someone hit the 'pause' button?"

I was looking at the eerie spectacle of the stage players, frozen, some
in mid-leap, just hanging in the air, when a blur of feathers simply
appeared.

The red-tailed hawk flared its wings, yelled

8 , banked hard right, saw me, saw all of us, and landed at the
edge of the stage.

Tobias demanded, wrapping talons around the lip of the
stage.

I shook my head, confused. Who? Was who here yet?

One of the "animals" onstage moved. Only it was not a Disney animal. It
had the body of a blue deer, the upper torso of a boy, a mouthless face
topped by two extra eyes on moveable stalks, and a tail that could snap
and leave you counting in base five.

Ax froze. Then he darted forward, moving away from the fake animals.
Stalk eyes swiveling, tail arched, ready to strike.

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