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"Nothing" She pressed her lips together This , but he still couldn’t recognize anyone Garrett had refused to let her see hi that all Lynch wanted was her

It scared her She’d thought at the ti he could do to her would be to drink her blood and drain her dry, but she’d been wrong Instead, the demon inside hiine his fury when he discovered how she’d played hiine…his hurt Rosalind sed hard She felt like she’d trapped herself in her own sticky spider web of lies and the weight of it was crushing her She didn’t want to hurt hiood for that

Jack watched her, no doubt drawing his own conclusions "You shouldn’t go back there He’sto do?" she whispered, thinking of the silent Cyclops ar in the dark in Undertown

Jack stiffened "Don’t doubt it We o, after Nathaniel wasthem down--to destroy the on him "Is it? Because if that is what is has cost me, then I cannot do this"

"Are you certain it’s only Jereroaned under her breath The truth If she continued as she was, one day she would have to go up against Lynch Was it worth it? Could she truly strike him down for her cause?

No The ansas a sickly whisper in hershe had stood for over the last eight years But how could she avoid him? He stood between her and the Echelon and she knew that his sense of duty and honor would force hiainst her

"I’ll deal with it" How?

"See that you do," Jack said "Don’t forget where your loyalties lie With your family, with your own people--with the humans who live in this wretched city and look to us for the only cursed hope they have"

"I knohere my damned loyalties lie," she snapped

"Devil take it, I can hear you two all the way to Liging a young lad with a htness in Rosalind’s chest eased She stepped forward as Ingrid shoved the lad to his knees in front of her "Found ’irid said "Couldn’t take him there so I had to wait till he’d blown his quid"

Rosalind knelt down, resting her elbows on her knees "Hello, Harry"

Theposition Blood dripped froentle, then

The youth was of an age with Jerely well, even if Harry’d looked to Mordecai for leadership, rather than herself His lips thinned as he scanned Jack’sform behind her "Don’t know nothin’"

"Yes, you do" Rosalind ser to stall his protests "Let’s not pretend that you won’t tell us everything you know The question is, whether you will do it now and be sent on your way unharrid must break every bone in your body first"

His blue eye rolled to Ingrid and he sed

"Firstly, I want to know if you’ve seen Jereotten word fro he wouldn’t be asked to betray his fellow ht ’e were dead--or taken by the Nighthawks"

Her eyelashes lowered as she fought to control her e up If none of the hthawks took hied "I were kinda ’opin’, you know? They were all over the tower after the bo then Rosalind sat back on her heels, her throat dry and tight Jack’s hand slid over her shoulder and she clutched it, squeezing his gloves gently as the world dissolved around her The last hope she had lay with Lynch, and she wasn’t sure if he would recover frohed "Be off with you then--"

"Wait" Rosalind looked up "Wait," she added softly, forcing her thoughts to focus "Tell me about the clockwork balls The ones you use to drive a blue blood mad"

Harry’s face paled under his rid," she said "Cut his thu back on the cobbles--directly into Ingrid’s legs

Ingrid grabbed his hand and dragged an enormous knife from her belt "Which one?" she asked Rosalind They’d played this gaed "It doesn’t particularlythe lad’s hand back

"No!" he screamed "No, stop! I’ll tell! I’ll tell you anythin’ you wanna know about the Doeppler Orbs!"

Rosalind gestured Ingrid away and leaned closer "Then tell me," she said "What is in the orbs that drives a blue blood mad? Is there a cure?"

"There’s a Dr Henrik Doeppler in the East End," he blurted, staring at Ingrid’s knife "Some kind of nutter but ’e was tryin’ to come up with a cure for the cravin’, and found this formula instead Don’t know if there’s a cure We don’t let ’eed

He looked at her

"Yes," she smiled "Be careful that you tell the truth, Harry You don’t kno much I know"

"We done tests," he said quickly "Just a fen below It were ’ard to get our ’ands on a blue blood, you see?"

She nodded

"So Mordecai thought we oughta try it on the Echelon Get ’em runnin’ scared and see ’oell it works before we attack"

Her instincts had been right This was bigger than it had see to happen?"

Harry stared at her helplessly "I don’t rightly know" He jerked his hands up in front of him as she frowned "I don’t! I swear it! Mordecai only tells me what I need to know"

Rosalind frowned "I saw crates filled with the orbs There were enough there to drive half the Echelon into a frenzy He has to be planning an attack on so, soether"