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"Yes, he re…" I answered in a barely audible voice "And his sister?"

"Seven is still a with tears "We don’t knohat happened really… Seth was too young to offer much information, and Seven chose the Darkness Aliah is believed to be the traitor, but whether Seven had a hand in it or not, we ht never know And maybe it’s better that way"

"But how could she? How could she betray her parents… her little brother?" I deain

"We don’t know," , she could have been s Or… some of us are more bent toward evil than others Just like you’ve seen in humanity, sometimes there isn’t much of a push needed at all for a person to choose darkness over light We are all different, all created for different purposes Seven believed the lie that her fate was held by the Darkness"

"Has anyone seen her since?" I gasped, wiping at a lone tear that had slipped out of the corner of my eye

"Jupiter," even my father’s voice shook with the pain of those circumstances "A few years after the incident, he found her outside their apart she ed her ht him instead They both walked away, it wasn’t et away fro Jupiter thinks she just wanted to check on Seth though If she had coht others She was alone and never returned after that"

I shivered violently, thinking about the depraved fallen Star, watching her unsuspecting brother How creepy… like soh a lot, Stella,"clearly in the otherwise quiet house "He trusts you though, he let you in I think that says a lot about his character and what he’s willing to risk for this future you two have together"

"But she’s still out there?" I asked, sing the lu in my throat "I mean… somewhere, on this planet, his sister is out there?"

"Yes," uy… what do you know about hi distractedly until I tasted blood

"He was a good Warrior," ht with hins of Darkness, nothing in his behavior or conduct that would have given the High Council any reason to suspect hiether in the field, and when Ethan was stationed on planet, Aliah requested a closer position so that they could still work together When or how Aliah defected is unclear, as are his intentions with Sitara and Ethan We don’t know if he always planned to kill thele he saw no other option"

"Do you think Aliah thought Seth’s parents would turn too? Or do you think he was after Seth the entire tiive ood as ours, honey," my mother pulled me closer, into her so that ine what he went through…" I sighed, relishing in the closeness of both of my parents

"Thank God for that,"in his forehead

I stood up slowly, suddenly feeling utterly exhausted I said goodnight to my parents and made my way up to bed But even with heavy eyelids and a tired soul, sleep didn’t findtime

When it finally did co my first battle with the Shadows They surrounded me in the dreaht hard, wieldingh, he wasn’t fighting withup the field with his inner sun I looked for hi help, but led ht lay aardly across the frozen field I fought to get to it, to find out what it was and when I finally drew close I saw the broken for lifelessly in a pool of his own blood, his light extinguishing with every passing second