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"Thanks," I said in between bites

Gabe plopped down on the grass next to Riley and Addie He squinted at David "You ave hi bite of his sandwich "What’d I do?"

"So you so relaxed about a Reboot fauilty," Ibut scream when they saw me last time, so they’re not alone"

"They want to see you now," David said, straightening and giving "

"Then they can come see me I’ll be at the HARC facility down the street"

David nodded, his face falling a little I doubted my parents wanted to step foot inside a HARC facility, especially one taken over by Reboots But I certainly wasn’t going to go out of lad I never knew my family," Riley said "All this parent stuff seehed but it died ininto be fine," Addie said softly "She’s going to be fine"

I nodded as I resu "She is She probably already burned New Dallas to the ground and doesn’t even need us to coreed and I tried to force a s to feel guilty forever if she’s not okay," Riley said quietly, after a long pause He picked at the grass "I knew Micah used to drop bad Reboots I should have warned you guys"

"Guilt isn’t going to help anyone," Addie said She looked pointedly at uilt forthe huiant lump of awful in my chest

"No," I adood, right?" David looked up at uilt It seeood news that you still do"

"True," I said with a suilt about killing that man, but David had a point It would be worse without it

"I like to harness guilt into kicking people’s asses," Addie said

David turned a worried look from me to Addie and scooted a little farther away froh as Addie arched her eyebrow in alanced back at the shuttles, armed and prepared for takeoff "I think that sounds like an excellent plan"

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