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"You and Hunter are the only ones who didn’t," Indie says "Take one of the tubes, I mean"

Of course Because Hunter and I accept the truth about death

"I’ve seen people dead," I tell Indie "So have you When they’re dead, they’re gone You can’t bring them back"

We are the ones who are alive Here With everything to lose

"What if you needed to get soing the subject "Would you say that’s impossible?"

"Of course not," she says Just like I knew she would "There are lots of ways to do it"

"Like what?" I ask I’ I can’t help it

"Climb," Indie says

"They’ll see us"

"Not if we’re fast," Indie tells me "Or we could fly"

"They’d catch us for sure that way"

"Not if it’s the Pilot who sends us in," she says

CHAPTER 12

XANDER

There’s always a feeling of excitement in the medical center when the cures coet to see people who are really fro in all the ti the cures are different They’re not tied down to the medical center or even to Caht see the Pilot The rus in so within our barricade is one that only the best pilots can e

The first ship drops down from the sky onto the street they use for a runway The pilot brings the ship to a stop yards away from the marble steps of City Hall

"I don’t kno they do that," one of the other physics says, shaking her head

"Neither do I," I say The ship turns and cooes a lot slower on land than it did in the air As I watch it come in, I wonder if someday I’ll have a chance to fly in one of those ships There are so et everyone cured

We physics open the cases in the e room and scan the tubes with ourofficers fro in the cases one after another

I finish scanning the tubes in the first case As soon as I do, another appears in front ofout to take it from the officer I look up

It’s Ky

"Carrow," he says

"Markha"

"Of course," he says "Always" He grins at me because we both know it’s a lie There are about a thousand things I want to ask hiot to keep the supplies

Suddenly that doesn’t feel like thein the world anymore I want to ask him how and where she is and if he’s heard froood to see you," Ky says

"You too," I tell hirip tightly, and I feel him press a piece of paper into my palm

"It’s from her," Ky says in a low voice so the others can’t hear Before anyone can tell us to get back to work, he heads for the door After he disappears, I glance over at the rest of the people delivering cures and find a girl with red hair watching me

"You don’t know ree

She tilts her head, scrutinizing me "My name is Indie," she says She smiles and it one, too

I shove the paper into ain, at least not that I see I can’t help but feel like we’re playing at the tables back in the Borough, when he was throwing the gaot another secret What does it say on that paper? I wish I could read it now, but , there isn’t ti else

Ky and I were friends alh At first, I was jealous of him I dared him to steal the red tablets, and he did After that we respected each other

I reer We must have been thirteen or so, and ere both in love with Cassia We stood talking near her house pretending to care what the other was saying but really waiting to see her when she came home