Cassie Comes Through (5 page)

Think about it! Look at 3-Across, 7-Across, and sorry, your mission, too, Vega—everyone has had a problem identifying either her Wisher or the wish. And 10-Across: Leona's private band tryout invite got holo-blasted to the entire school and our top-secret name was revealed. Or how about 8-Down: Leona's Wish Pendant got ruined and she didn't collect any wish energy.

Plus me, Ophelia, the flowers…

1) I l♥ve, l♥ve, l♥ve that my puzzle got you thinking, Cassie! 2) Wow. I was only looking at them as puzzle clues. But when you actually read them one after another, it's pretty crazy!

Starzactly.

There is a lot of weird stuff going on, that's for sure. And what about my and Ophelia's deliberately switched grades?

Was that ever proven?

Well, not yet, but…

Listen, we need to stay calm. Do you think it could just be a coincidence?

No way!

Well…we've been brought together to do something so controversial it has to be kept secret from everyone else at Starling Academy—to collect wish energy on Wishworld before we graduate. I'm afraid that maybe we're being sanitized.

???

Okay, now I'm really confused!

Darn you, starcorrect! I meant sabotaged!