Crispin landed both ships near the forest on Mayvel where I'd supposedly found my inner serial killer. In a snow-packed clearing that might have been some poor farmer's crops that butted up against a dense line of trees, we were still a couple of miles from Smixton College. We had no way to camouflage the ships since Poh's chameleon skill only stretched so far, so they stuck out like two spaceships in the middle of a snow-packed field. We would need to be speedy.

I was ...