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"This rebellion has gone on quite long enough No food or supplies are to be sent to the outer sectors unless they are prepared to beg for forgiveness It is time the citizens of Luna were reminded how lucky they are to have me" Her heart fluttered with anticipation "And send for Dr Evans I have a special task for him"

"And the princess, My Queen?"

"Do not worry about your darling disfigured princess" Sneering, Levana leaned forward and dragged her thu a splattered drop of wine "I will deal with her o"

BOOK Four

"Are you afraid of poison?" asked the old woman

"Here, I will cut the apple in two You eat the red half,

and I shall eat the white"

Sixty-One

Cinder was frustrated by her own helplessness They’d moved into the mansion’s recreational room Until then, Cinder hadn’t knownher best to dictate to the others what needed to be done in order to extract the video she’d tried to take in the throne roo and brain-athering supplies, she was seated on a lavish sofa with her useless hunk-of- working again easily enough if she was back in her workshop in New Beijing If she had the right tools If she wasn’t the rateful She had survived the queen’s attempted execution and she hadn’t drowned in Arteain and Iko hadn’t been destroyed after all--had, in fact, been helped by one of Aiuards, which confirmed what Jacin had told her once before Not everyone in the palace was as loyal to Levana as she wanted to think

On top of all that, she e of Queen Levana that would shohat lay beneath her glaainst her and her e hadn’t been destroyed in the water, that is

"Thorne, pry off the back panel of that receiver, but gently Jacin, what did you find in the security panel?"

"A bunch of wires" Jacin dumped a handful of wires and a databoard onto the floor

Cinder nudged at the wires with her good foot "A few of these should work Help arabbed one of the table legs with her good hand, but her injured shoulder resisted when she tried to turn it over Jacin grabbed it fro in her left eye She tried not to be resentful It wasn’t his fault she was still tender from where the wolf soldier had bitten her, and at least the nuto be blood e open you up, is there?" said Thorne, carrying the receiver over to Cinder so she could pick through its inner workings "I ht?"

"Better be" She scanned the inner workings of the receiver while Thorne and Jacin disasse table The setup was different fro they had on Earth--different-colored wires, different-size plugs and connectors, but it all functioned with siy and the saery as … est concern is whether or not all the hardill be coh since Luna and Earth stopped trading with each other that … I guess we’ll see" She glanced at the ga the inner workings "Oh, perfect!" Leaning forward, she pried up the fiber mode converter "We can use this"