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His lips twitched "Say ‘please, Riley’"

I tried to glare at hi a pain in the ass, Riley"

He chuckled "I’ll see what Micah says You do realize I know you’re up to soht?"

"I don’t knohat you mean"

"I feel hurt you don’t trust me"

I punched his shoulder as I passed him "Payback’s a bitch"

ELEVEN

CALLUM

"DUDE, YOU’RE INSANE"

I grunted as I pushed the round piece of wood into the ground to htened to face Isaac I squinted in the setting sun, watching as the Reboots in the distance transported water to the food tent We were in the corner of the reservation, far enough away so that no one could overhear our conversation, but I still spoke quietly

"Why am I insane?" I asked I pushed back a brief e of the human I killed slid into my vision Isaac hadn’t ave ers He’d stopped working on the tent and was just staring at me

Addie cocked an eyebrow at round on the other side of the tent I’d suggested we start feeling out the reservation Reboots, seeing if they all wanted to kill the huht off Micah didn’t see over so ith Isaac, my first test subject

"And they tried to kill you!" he continued, stepping closer tohis voice "And they would have killed you for sure when you reached twenty And you want to go in and save them now?"

"HARC did that I can’t blame all the humans for what they did" I cocked my head "Do you knohy HARC does that? Kills Reboots at twenty?"

"It’s supposedly a population-control thing They don’t need that many Reboots Also they apparently found that nineteen or twenty was the age they started getting restless in the facilities Doing crazy things like thinking for theo back!" Isaac said with a laugh before casting around a furtive glance "Maybe I shouldn’t say that so loud You probably don’t ord of that plan getting out"

"You seriously want to kill all the humans in the cities?" Addie whispered, her hands on her hips as she walked closer to us