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Outside their confined closet, the voices grew louder Soloved fists "Wolf, Thorne, the second a thaue sees either of you they’ll try to control you" She licked her lips "Do I have permission to take control of you first? Just your bodies, not yourfor you to adun at his waist "Be ave her a sharp nod

Cinder slipped her will into Thorne as easily as slicing through a block of tofu Wolf’s energy waswith hiy, too, offered little resistance Cinder felt their lih she knew she was doing it for their own protection, keeping the turned into weapons for the ene them was a betrayal of their trust It was an unfair balance of power--their safety was now her responsibility

She thought of Levana, forcing her guard to take a bullet for her at the royal ball, and wondered if she would ever make that same decision with one of her friends

She hoped she would never have to

A voice echoed in the nearby corridor: "Nothing in the engine room You--split up Search these corridors and report back"

They were close, and if there was a thau before he or she was near enough to detect the bioelectricity coe closet She pictured the ship’s layout and tried to for aithout announcing their presence

They would have to fight their way out of the ship They would have to fight all the way to the lev shuttles

"Cinder," Thorne whispered His body was statue still, waiting for Cinder’s command "Send me out there"

Cress’s head snapped up, but he didn’t return the look

Cinder frowned "What?"

"Send lev doors I’ll draw theo bay"

"Thorne…"

"Do it" His eyes flashed He still wouldn’t look at Cress "We made it to Luna You don’t need a pilot here, or a captain"

Her pulse thundered "You don’t have to--"

Outside so tih his teeth "I’ll lead the overconfident, but Cinder found herself nodding at the sa her head

"My control of you will be intermittent inside the ship, but if I can find you, I’ll reclaim you as soon as we’re all outside" If they don’t clai to speak it out loud Controlling an Earthen like Thorne was easy, but wresting control away fronificantly more difficult

"Got it" Thorne’s jaw tensed

"Be careful," Cress said, hted on her for the briefest of moments …