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The girl--Cress--see as it beca to have her executed Winter smiled at her "I’ve never ift I can’t sense you at all, like you’re not even there, even though you’re standing right in front of rin broadened "That would driveand queen," said Jacin "Maybe we can turn her into an assassin"

Winter turned to hied "Does she look like she’s capable of disabling our entire lev system?"

"I didn’t disable it" Cress’s voice was ht as well have shouted "I changed the access parameters so the queen couldn’t shut it down"

Jacin stared at her "But you could disable it, if you wanted to"

After a beat, the girl dropped her gaze to the floor

"We have to find so on a curl of hair "Soher or Jacin, but Jacin answered first with a grumbled "Good question"

Winter shoved him hard in the shoulder He barely shifted

"Because it’s the right thing to do We’re going to protect you Aren’t we, Jacin?"

When Jacin said nothing, Winter shoved hihed "I think we can sneak her into the guard quarters It’s not far and on’t have to go into the main part of the castle"

With obvious disbelief, Cress said, "You’re going to protect ainstas we can," said Winter "And, if the opportunity arises, we’ll do our best to reunite you with your friends"

For the first tiot away?"

"It would seem so They haven’t been found yet, as far as I can tell"

"But the queen won’t stop looking," added Jacin, as if either of the Her expression becahtful as she stared at Jacin Finally, she asked, "I don’t suppose the guard quarters have access to the royal broadcasting network?"

Twenty-Four

Their progress through Luna’s outer sectors was slow and tedious Soh the tunnels, so Wolf’s identity to send a shuttle on without the in the opposite direction Sometimes they split up and rejoined one another a couple of sectors over, to confuse any security personnel looking for a group of two ether

They kept their heads down Iko kept her hair hidden beneath her cap Cinder fidgeted with her gloves to be sure her h they avoided what surveillance cameras they could, she knew they couldn’t miss them all She hoped there were so many surveillance feeds on Luna they couldn’t possibly all be h they occasionally ventured up to the surface in order to switch to a different shuttle line, they avoided it when they could Wolf warned theuards Though they were meant to be there for the security of the people, it see anyone who dared to speak out against the crown The few tied to go unassaulted in their disguises and cowed postures, but Cinder kneouldn’t be long before security measures were increased all over Luna

They barely talked Cinder spent the hourseveryto deter to rescue Cress, trying to keep Kai out of Levana’s clutches