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"You should not be worried about the prince, Miss Linh"

"I shouldn’t?"

"She is co today? That is what he told you?"

She nodded

"Then you must leave Quickly You can’t be here when she arrives"

He shooed her off the table Cinder hopped down, but made no move toward the door "What does this have to do with me?"

"We have your blood samples, your DNA We can do without you for now Just stay away froone, do you understand?"

Cinder planted her feet "No, I don’t"

The doctor looked fro her stats He appeared confused Old Frazzled "Screen, display current newsfeed"

Cinder’s stats vanished, replaced by a news anchor The headline above hi to make a speech in just a fewcoronation We will be broadcasting live--"

"Mute"

Cinder folded her ar eyes to Cinder "Miss Linh, you must listen very carefully"

"I’ll turn ainst the cabinets, disappointed when Dr Erland didn’t so runtled sigh "I aht I would have ether Paced back toward the door Squared his shoulder and faced Cinder again "You were eleven when you had your operation, correct?"

The question was not what she’d been expecting "Yes…"

"And before that, you don’t re What does this have to do with--"

"But your adoptive parents? Surely they round?"

Her right pal after the accident, and Adri doesn’t like to talk about it, if she even knows anything Adoptingabout your biological parents?"

Cinder shook her head "Just their names, birth dates…whatever was in my files"

"The files on your ID chip"

"Well…" Irritation burst inside her "What’s your point?"

Dr Erland’s eyes softened, trying to comfort, but the look only unnerved her

"Miss Linh, from your blood samples I have deduced that you are, in fact, Lunar"

The ashed over Cinder as if he were speaking a different language The , like it orking through an impossible equation

"Lunar?" The word evaporated off her tongue, almost nonexistent

"Yes"

"Lunar?"

"Indeed"

She pulled back Looked at the walls, the exaic," she said, folding her arms in defiance

"Yes, well Not all Lunars are born with the gift They’re called shells, which is a slightly derogatory connotation on Luna, so…well, bioelectrically challenged doesn’t sound much better, does it?" He chuckled aardly

Cinder’s metal hand clenched She briefly wished she did have soh his head "I’love off and waved her hand at hih?"

"Lunars can be cyborgs as easily as huiven their intense opposition of cybernetics and brain-asp "No Who would be opposed to that?"