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"It’s what the princess would want" Kinney crossed back to the door, careful not to buhness persuaded the queen to giveher, so I owe her a lot" He tipped his head toward Cress "Whoever you are, I never saw you"
Jacin didn’t try to stop him as he slipped out the door
Cress’s heart was still halad you didn’t kill hiaze slid around the roo what, Cress couldn’t tell "We’ll wait until the wing is mostly cleared, but then it’s time to leave"
She clutched the portscreen, both excited and terrified to be leaving her prison, and her sanctuary
"Jacin, did Levana threaten to hurt someone, if you didn’t kill Winter?"
"Of course she did That’s how she operates"
Her heart cracked, for him, for Winter, for victims she didn’t even know "Who?"
He turned away and started ruh a drawer, but she could tell the action was just to occupy himself "No one," he said "No one important"
Forty-Five
"Don’t they have any newsfeeds on this star-forsaken rock?" Kai gruraph, Luna’s version of the ever-present netscreen
"We are in a dictatorship, Your Majesty," said Torin, his ar lake below "Do you believe the newsfeeds would be reliable even if they had theain
He had sent awould, unfortunately, have to be postponed if he wasn’t allowed to meet with his adviser prior to the ceremony, as his adviser was the one most educated on the vows and custonized political union
Somewhat to his surprise, she assented
It was a relief to see Torin again and assure himself that his adviser hadn’t been har frustration and restlessness The queen’s broadcasting networks were his newest cause for complaint They see useful at all
"I want to knohat’s going on out there," he said, flipping off the holograph "I know it’s started I know Cinder’s done soetically "I have no more answers than you do"
"I know I don’t expect you to It’s just so frustrating to be stuck here when she’s--when they’re all out there! Doing … whatever it is they’re doing!" He joined Torin at theand clawed a hand into his hair "How can the people here stand to be cut off from the rest of the country? Without anyin the other sectors Doesn’t it drive them crazy?"