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###Chapter 439 RILEY Ollie went quiet again at breakfast, the way he did most mornings, and I didn't think much of it beyond the usual small worry I carried for him without really examining—the worry you get about your twin, some instinct older than reason, a sense that he was carrying something heavy that I couldn't see the shape of. I was too excited about my magnet project to dwell on it long. Mom had listened to my whole explanation with that focused, delighted expression she always gave me when I talked about the things I loved, nodding along like every word out of my mouth actually mattered, and I basked in it the way I always did, warm all the way through. "You're going to blow everyone away at the science fair," she told me as she buckled Lake into the car, and I felt my chest puff up with pride. "Riley thinks everything blows people away," Lake said, grinning at me from his booster seat. "Even the boring stuff." "It's not boring," I said. "Magnetism is one of the fundamen