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Agent Purdy looks over et the infor for? Do you knohere they are?’

Setrákus Ra growls and I’ the ceround, I’m immediately pulled back to my feet by the pendant chain I can feel my ribs have taken some of the i difficulty breathing I try again to use e

‘So nice of you to join us here, Six,’ Purdy says ‘I see you’ve met Setrákus Ra’

‘You’re a coward,’ I whisper Legacies or no, I a

‘Coward? You are the one who runs from me,’ Setrákus Ra objects dismissively

I stare hard into his maroon eyes ‘ This is cowardly You must think you won’t be able to kill me if I am at my full power And that is what I call a coward’

Setrákus Ra’s scar glows again, the brightest yet To my surprise, the chain aroundthe pendant overfroht you, Six Alone And you will die Very soon’

I’ed out of the cell and the top ofhard hits the back of my head I close my eyes – better for them to think I’ ht and two left turns I hear a door open and I’ soft Or until so soft hits me I haven’t opened my eyes yet when I feel arms wrap around me When I open my eyes I’m surprised, for the second time in an hour, to see Sarah Hart

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Our beige Ford Contour barrels down the highith Nine behind the wheel I stare at the long rows of corn in the fields and I try to picture what they’d look like fro somewhere in the New Mexico desert After all these years, after all the running and hiding and training, everything is nearly in place Meacies and are coht, and when it’s all over ill have a ship to fly us back to Lorien

‘I’m bored,’ Nine says ‘Tell me a story Tell me about Sarah

How hot is she, anyway?’

‘Forget it She’s out of your league,’ I say

‘Four, if you could get anywhere near her, I’m pretty sure I’d have a shot Especially in this car’

This car Nine letthere Ielse that I’d seen about how Sandor and Nine had lived, it was understandable that I pictured our ride as so to it Turns out, looks can be deceiving The Ford was just hiding its assets

Fro most likely found on cinderblocks But inside it has to be theI’ve ever seen I feel like James Bond There’s a radar detector, a laser jammer, and bulletproof tinted s When Nine wants a break fro for hie barrels pops out of the hood This, of course, is controlled with the steering wheel Nine dehway in southern Illinois, squeezing off a few rounds at an abandoned barn My firsthand experience of cars was limited to the beat-up pickups and other throays Henri found for us – the kinds of cars ould have no probleone for soot left behind It just goes to show again how different each Cêpan was

Nine takes his hands off the wheel and puts the you Just tell ain what she looks like After thispretty to think about’

I look back at the fields, lips pressed together ‘No way’

‘Dude, you’d think she hadn’t, you know, turned your ass in to the police Come on! Why are you so protective?’

‘I don’t even know if she did turn me in I don’t knoho to believe anymore But if she did, I have to think she had her reasons Maybe she was lied to or pressured into it’ So h my mind If only I could see her, talk to her

‘Yeah, yeah Forget that stuff for a minute Just tell me what she looks like I really want to know And I proive this up ‘I swear on the Loric code, if there is such a thing’

‘Of course there’s such a thing! You and Sandor were just too busy living this cushy life, playing with your toys, to bother with anything as basic as Loric code,’ I retort We ride in silence for a few minutes ‘Okay, I’ll tell you this about Sarah You knohen you’re talking to a beautiful girl and she’s focused only on you and everything is going great?’

‘Yeah’

‘And you think you’re with the hottest girl in the state,in a roohts it up Everyone wants to be her best friend, wants to marry her, or both Can you picture her?’