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"Your Majesty!"

She pivoted toward the voice A wo an invisi-screen "I think I’ve found soet a better view The screen showed the central square of an outer sector--regolithby the dust that covered every surface, s her likeness could be seen in the footage, a thing of beauty in their drab world

The square was full of people, a rarity in itself Her mandated curfew ensured that the people focused on their work and their rest without being te off-work hours

"Is this live?" she asked

"No, My Queen This was fil after the end of the workday" She hastened through the footage, and Levana squinted to try to make sense of it Guards, civilians, a just punishment, and then …

"Pause the video"

The wo into the face that had haunted her for months If there had been any doubt, the monstrous metal hand dispelled it

"Where is this?"

"Regolith Mining 9"

Levana’s lips curled upward

The cyborg was hers

"Aimery, assemble a team for immediate deployht to me for a public trial and execution Use whatever methods you see fit to detain her" Her vision bled with loathing as she stared at the screen The haughty girl with her ignorant words and her proud displays "We are not to tolerate any syht to an end"

BOOK Three

"Your stepmother will soon know you are here,"

warned the kindly dwarfs "Do not let anyone in"

Thirty-Nine

Levana’s rebuttal video was playing for the third tinore it, but every ti the sound of his voice ain that he wasn’t here He was under Levana’s control, as Levana had so deftly illustrated

Froolith factory, Cinder could see most of one of the screens embedded on the dome It showed a contented Levana and a peaceful Kai So happy together There was one moment when Kai turned to Levana and smiled all dreamy-like that made Cinder’s skin crawl For the billionth time, she wished Cress ith them She would have kno to turn it off

Cinder turned away fro how Levana’sreceived across Luna, just as she had no way of knowing how her video was being received The best she could do washer allies--Iko, Thorne, Wolf, and Scarlet Wolf’swith a handful of sector residents who had been noh the night, plotting and organizing, too energized to sleep

Two runners had returned that ood news The guards had been restrained, their weaponry confiscated, and the people would join Cinder on her ers had taken on the dangerous assignlev tunnels to confirm the truth of Cinder’s video and rally asstart