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So what if Pique and Lilie were making a really scary face when they told her about the Prodding Bridge? There couldn't really be a mean ghost that threw people in the water -

- okay, sometimes there really were mean ghosts around town, but Pique and Lilie said people went to the bridge to ask questions all the time! So there wasn't anything to be worried about.

"Nothing to be scared of," she chants to herself, her feet keeping time as she marches along the cobblestones, "nothing to be scared of -"

But she knows that's not really true. Mytho hasn't been back to school in days and days, ever since he got the most recent heartshard back. He could be really suffering, and it could be her fault. And that's sure something to be scared of . . .

(And so is the idea of giving up her pendant and going back to being a duck forever.)

That's a different kind of scary than ghosts, though.

"I just want to be sure I know what I should do!"