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Cress consideredCinder as queen were decent-size priorities too, but she dared not

"Have you mentioned your parents to Cinder?"

He cocked his head "Why?"

"I don’t know Sheany allies on Luna … hoould be useful to have aze darkened, both thoughtful and annoyed "It would put theht intend to put a lot of people in danger" Cress worried at her lower lip, then sighed "Is there anything else you need?"

"For time to move faster"

Cress wilted "IWhen did you last eat?"

Wolf’s shoulders hunched closer to his ears, and the guilty expression was all the answer she needed She’d heard ruh-octaneShe’d hardly seen any of that since co aboard the ship, and she could tell that Cinder, in particular, orried about hiies for Cinder’s revolution did he seehter he wasto e, along with hervoice, and planted a hand on her hip "And you are going to eat it without argu to be of any use to us, and Scarlet"

Wolf raised an eyebrow at her newfound gumption

Cress flushed "Or … at least eat so"

His expression softened "A sandwich sounds good With … to in a deep breath, she grabbed her portscreen and headed toward the galley

"Cress?"

She paused and turned back, but Wolf was looking at the floor, his arms crossed He looked about as aard as she usually felt

"Thank you"

Her heart expanded, ballooning with syue--She’ll be all right Scarlet will be all right--but Cress stuffed the into the corridor

She had nearly reached the galley when she heard Thorne call her nahtly ajar, and pressed it open The captain’s quarters were the largest of the crew cabins and the only rooh Cress had been inside plenty of times to help him with the eyedrop solution Dr Erland ed optical nerve, she never lingered long Even with the door wide open, the rooe map of Earth on one wall, filled with Thorne’s handwritten notes andthe places he’d been and the places he wanted to go, along with a dozen to-scale models of different spaceships scattered across the captain’s desk, including a prominent one of a 214 Rampion The bed was never made