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"How is Avalon? Is he Ok?" he groaned, as if he couldn't raise his voice without betraying his heartbreaking concern

"I don't know" I hungyou could tell ht ain The inable, fro the splintered wooden stands, to the lighter browns and tans of the clothes of the people, to the deep, flawless brown of the vendors skin The monochromatic color scheme, as if each shade represented an entirely different color all together, moved me

"No, they kept us all separate Once we reached the prison, I was completely isolated I couldn't even hear another person" Jericho's sentence trailed off into melancholy pensiveness, his eyes shifted and becaain I reached out and slippedhiers, staring at the back to himself "But shouldn't you kno he is? Can't you communicate with hih he asked with the softest of tones, I couldn't help but feel like he was accusing me I should be able to talk to Avalon, I should have never let hiic to ot to Romania We could have waited to find out Lucan's exact plans for him

"Eden? Eden, can't you coain, and the s

"No," I rippedit to cover my face and my shaain, and not to slip into the void of despair, the painful abyss that was so difficult to cli, thick, black waves aroundand stood at a vendor that sold different wears made out of Alpaca fur The different shades of soft fur arments that I would love to take home with me Pure white pillows, heavenly, creaged to be bought Every object was hand stitched and unique

"So is he is he so is he dead?" Jericho demanded with a hoarse voice, barely audible

"No, I don't think so" I cleared th "After everyone was captured, after they took him he decided we decided that he would be safest without ave it all towas left, if he was just human Our hope was that he would use Avalon as bait instead of sacrificing him for no reason It seems to have worked Ifor; he wanted ic"

"Clever," Jericho mumbled as if in macabre awe

"But that doesn't ht," I added quickly, "and there is absolutely no way for o to Romania myself and break him out of that hell hole"

"That's not seriously your plan, is it?" Jericho reached for ain The concierge froave us directions to the church, I was too distracted to pay close attention, but Jericho see

"At so to have to face that Citadel and get those people out of there, I owe them that much," I promised with sincerity

"Um, no you don't have to face that fact That is a death trap just waiting for you Lucan already assuic-less brother and the only army he believes will stand with you Plus, there is only a fifty-fifty chance your ic will even work down in those prisons It would be a suicideruht

"What do you

"Well, the only Iic down there are the Titans So, in theory, because of who your dad is, you could be fine But on the other hand, Amory was not fine That was the only place they could ever keep hiht not ht cancel it out So it's not even like fifty-fifty, it's more like twenty-five-seventy-five"

"But there is a chance," I said with confidence That was all I needed

"Listen, if that really is your plan, if you are really hell-bent on going there, aren't there a few things we need to do first?" Jericho, always the strategic leader, was right

"Yes, you're right I have to find oal And I would like to build more of an ar solo I need an actual plan of attack, a way to draw the Titan Guard away froood ideas Those are really good ideas," Jericho sounded surprised as he calculatedwould you say you have now? Like, rough numbers"

I cleared my throat, and couldn't stop the blush that flooded elica, and Silas," I finished weakly