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Then there were the barrels of black powder on the third floor

There was a circularity to it all, he thought All those slave workers who had perished when the rest of his complex had burned They had not been able to escape They’d been chained to their machines Their deaths were on him, and now they’d have soive hi the easy way out, a choice they had not had

He picked up his pistol and pressed the muzzle to his head

It was time for others to lead and carry on the opposition Cade would protect Arhys, he knew Perhaps Karigan G’ladheon would even reach her own tie the course of history A pity he would never find out

He pulled the trigger

When the professor had sealed the hatch on the penstock, Cade sensed he would not see his ain Now he crouched at the very bottom of the mill in the tailrace tunnel The turbine with its rusted vanes and gears had been shifted out of the way at the bottoh space to ed to move the turbine, and secretly, too, he had no idea In fact, only now did he realize how little he knew about his mentor

He could not dwell on it He was on his own, and he had soranite masonry floor of the tailrace, quite oblivious to all that had gone on so far He hoped the professor had not irreparably hare dose of morphia Cade did not kno, precisely, it would affect her, for morphia could be unpredictable, but he did know she’d be out for quite soht of the taper around, surprised to find the subterranean tunnel high enough for hi as he re He had never been beneath a mill before--tailraces were usually filled ater, except when so a tailrace tunnel as a path of escape, but the professor had He shook his head The professor’s paranoia ell honed

The tailrace was constructed entirely of granite block masonry In places he sahere silt had collected, i water and the footprints of large river rats The tailrace went far beyond the glow of his taper To reach the river, he’d have to pass not only beneath this mill, but the width of the abandoned courtyard of the cooing to reach the river anyti as going on up above

When he started to lift Karigan, her eyes fluttered open She squinted at hian

"Yes?" he asked, gently shaking her when her eyes started closing again

She blinked hard "You have a nose" And just like that, she was out again