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"What would be the purpose of this little charade?" McClusky asked disht learn where the portal is, how it’s guarded, perhaps even so this prison," Brad said with a s effect on the Council wizards "After all, that infore of the uprising you propose"

"But this infiltration exposes us to risk," Mac argued "We don’t kno they’re identifying each other, but if they spot a plant, then they’ll knoe’re on to thee What we need to do is revive every prisoner we can find, set a day and tiuards at once Then we take a few hostages and head straight for that gateway"

Brad turned to ulped "Me? What does ave ically enhanced "I noe here," Mac insisted

"We never agreed upon that," Brad said, his voice silky smooth, the aural equivalent of ree upon an elf as the leader, so ill co as Katie is that wizard"

I opened my mouth to say that I wasn’t really a wizard, but Owen elbowed me in the side When I turned to look at him, he shook his head al back a slared at Owen and me Owen maintained an expression of pure innocence Brad’s smile was even more innocent than that "Shall we put it to a vote?" he asked with a glance over his shoulder to his people, as if to remind us that the elves had the wizards outnu those lines

"Very well," Mac gru a mistake"

"Katie’s been MSI’s secret weapon for a while now, so youfor the first ti

"So, Katie, our fearless leader, what do you think about the prison break plan?" Brad asked

I gulped and took a couple of deep breaths I’d never ledin my life, despite Owen’s vote of confidence I’d never even been an officer in a club when I was in school I was s done behind the scenes "I think the uprising should be a last resort," I said when I trusted myself to speak and sound authoritative instead of like a scared little girl "There haven’t been that s that were actually successful They’ve beento rally around without doing any practical good Has any in free for good?" I directed that question at Mac To be honest, I wasn’t sure of the answer, but it didn’t see that was likely to happen

Mac shrugged grudgingly, but he didn’t speak, so I continued, gaining confidence as I went on "We’re at even et back ho should be our first priority, and we need to know about both sides of the portal We need to find any fellow prisoners ere taken after ere and see if they know anythingsent here for knowing tooimportant For instance, I know there’s an MSI security operative here as taken after ere, and if I find hiain, he may have inforh my people," Brad said with a nod

"But be careful about that Mac was right that we should keep this in separate cells If they’re s the prisoners, someone we’re likely to trust If we don’t all know each other, they won’t be able to track all of us down, no matter who they catch You have warned everyone you’ve awakened about writing down possible ht?"

Everyone in the room pulled pieces of paper out of their pockets "Good," I said with a nod, suddenly feeling very official "Then we’ll need to learn about this side of the portal If you’ve got soood You ic use to ive you away We shouldn’t ood information drop point Do any of you know an elf named Perdita?"