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"What is she saying?"

Thorne’s voice pitched high in imitation of the queen "The impostor of my beloved niece is vanquished … Let us put this o forith the coronations … I ary nut basket and my breath smells really bad under this veil"

Cinder snickered She tried to check the tier worked "How long until the coronation?"

"Nine hours," said Iko

Nine hours They’d been in this ht and Cinder had been asleep for most of it

"There’s also the ticker…" Cress pointed to the holograph, where a list of sectors was trekking across the botto around Levana

"That’s the interesting part," said Thorne "She’s passed an edict that any sector found in violation of curfew or suspected of assisting ‘the impostor’ will be barricaded, to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis after the coronation Then she goes on so their queen for mercy"

"It see feast," said Jacin "The nu"

"How hty-seven at last count," said Cress

"Including RM-9," added Thorne, "and every sector in its i the rebellion, the raid there seehty-seven at last count

"And you think they’ve all … that all these sectors…" Cinder sed Her head still felt foggy "What do we think thisa bad day," said Jacin

Thorne nodded "Some of it could be her own paranoia, but even when Iko and I were trying to get into Arte their own tunnels to keep supplies out of the city, or looting their factories for weapons, that sort of thing And that was before your trial Of course, we don’t know if the people believe you’re really dead, but I’m not sure it matters at this point If you’re alive, then you’re one hell of a revolutionary If you’re dead, then you’re one hell of athe ticker scroll by

Eighty-seven sectors had been ready to fight for her--for themselves From what she’d seen, each sector housed at least a thousand civilians, and soh to overwhelm the capital and overthrow Levana …

Except all those people were trapped

"Don’t faint," said Thorne

She looked at hi, Cinder started to pace "Can we do so about these barricades? The people can’t come to our aid if they’re confined to their own sectors"

"Oh, sweetheart," said Thorne, "we are so far ahead of you Cress?"

Cress pulled up the holograph of Luna they’d spent a lot of ti aboard the Rampion--all the domes and subway tunnels laid out on thethe barricaded sectors as they were listed on Levana’s broadcast It was still only a fraction of all the sectors on Luna, but then, it was possible there were plentythat Levana didn’t know about yet