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exclaimed. Some days it was hard to be chivalrous without coming off like a total ass.
    “So what happened with the tent?” Amethyst said, and if I didn’t want to snuggle up to her before, I did now. The change of subject was very much appreciated.
    “A yeti fell on it. Like, out of the sky.” I waved my arms around excitedly as I surveyed the damage. “It’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and I’ve seen zombies!”
    I’d spent two nights setting up all my gear just the way I wanted it. Now it was in shambles. The central support pole was splintered, and the heavy-duty tarp sported a couple of giant holes. My storage chest looked intact, but the folding table and chairs were twisted into metal origami shapes. It was going to cost me a lot of snow-shoveling money to replace all of it, but I couldn’t help grinning every time I thought about the beast plummeting out of the sky. He could have fallen onto anybody’s tent, but he had fallen on
mine
.
    Finally, I tore my eyes away from the mess to find all three girls staring at me.
    “You need to get out more,” Amethyst said. “Seriously.”

CHAPTER 4
    “Everything okay?” A chaperone came lurching into the camp, sweat plastering his wispy hair to his head. He set a carton of bottled water down on the ground with a huff of effort. “Looks like your tent died, Jonah.”
    “Yeah.” I tried to look embarrassed, which isn’t easy when you’re bouncing on the inside and making a loud
EEEEEEEE
sound in your head. “Structural deficiency, I guess. We’ll clean it up.”
    “I know you will.” He turned away, totally uninterested. On one hand, it was a little insulting that our chaperones had no gaming chops whatsoever. On the other, it could also be very convenient. We got away with the occasional bending of the rules because they quite simply didn’t care
what
we did. They just showed up because the Bayview Community Center paid them.
    “What’s this ‘we’ stuff?” muttered Calamity.
    “We can’t make him clean this up all by himself,” Europa said. “Come on, Cal. That’s totally uncool.”
    “I’ll take any help I can get,” I said. “But I was hoping you’d at least stick around so I could pick your brains. I think between the four of us, we could have a nice strategy council going on here.”
    “What are we strategizing?” Amethyst pulled a chair out of the rubble. One of its legs was bent into a curlicue. “Anybody have duct tape?”
    Calamity snorted. “Duct tape won’t fix that.”
    My words came out in unison with Amethyst’s: “Duct tape will fix anything.” We grinned at each other, until I noticed Calamity’s scowl and figured I should stop.
    “So I need ideas on how to track the yeti,” I said, dragging my chest out of the mess and retrieving the tape. “We need to know once and for all if we’re dealing with a realcryptozoological creature or if it’s just some LARPer.”
    “Crypto-whatsit?” Europa asked, wrinkling her nose.
    “Cryptozoological,” Amethyst interjected before I could answer. “Legendary animals like the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot and the chupacabra.”
    “Which are all awesome,” I said.
    “I don’t believe in any of that stuff,” Amethyst said, tossing her hair.
    “You should.” Europa started to duct-tape the tent pole back together. “Jonah and his sister just took on a bunch of zombies. He lost the tip of his pinky finger and everything.” She gave me the Look, the one that made me feel all mushy. “He’s really brave.”
    “Thanks for the vote of confidence, E.” I grabbed the tape and started tearing off pieces. Turning to Amethyst, I said, “But if you want to believe that it’s some idiot in disguise, I don’t mind. Just help me find it.”
    “That’s easy,” Amethyst said. “My dad’s been taking me hunting since I was ten.”
    “You kill Bambi?” Europa looked ready to cry.
    “Nah. Ducks, mostly. I took down a wild turkey once