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Burns

They were scars created from burns

Cinder kneith absolute certainty

A wretched scream sent a shock of cold water over Cinder’s body

"Turn it off! Turn it off!" Levana shrieked She spun away fro the ar the! I’ll have your eyes ripped out, every one of you!"

Cinder realized she was no longer paralyzed fro her rooted to the ground

It orking The queen was losing control She was being forced to see the truth beneath her own gla to stop it

The video dissolved into a chaos of bullets and screams, blood and bodies

Levana stared out at the people ere no longer under her control Her glaured and, in that moment, afraid

A gun fired, but missed The bullet embedded itself in the palace doors So, she swiveled her head around It was Scarlet, her red hair like a spotlight in the crowd She reloaded her gun and took aiain

Levana stumbled back two, three steps, then she turned and ran back into her palace, leaving her entourage of shocked thau Wolf too, still hunkered over Iko’s body, though she was no longerHis focus was on Scarlet, his defornition and horror

For a moment, Cinder found herself ihts She didn’t knohat to do Iko wasn’tShe didn’t know if she could trust Wolf The queen had run, but her path to the palace was still blocked, and there were still enough thaues to control most of the soldiers and the civilians, but everyone was shocked,frohts

Cinder gasped, unable to tell where it had come from She didn’t know if it was one of the soldiers who had joined her side, or if it was one of the other packs Stro them

The hoas joined by another, and another Then everything dissolved into chaos

Eighty-Three

Standing on the dais on which he’d been crowned the king of Luna, Kai crossed his arms and scowled into the audience The leaders and diplomats from the Earthen Union were stone-faced in an atte under the surface Levana had locked the with hundreds of Lunar aristocrats, who sh they were exotic ani and har and sta feet, but they were muffled by the thick stone walls

The threat of revolt and the h to taint the Lunars’ revelry They were acting as though they were at a circus Cheering when the sounds of fighting got louder outside Placing bets on different thauhest death count when it was done Making crude jokes about who a without cashmere wraps and blueberry wine next season if the laborers froet back to work, lazy buffoons that they were

Listening to it had Kai’s vision blazing red He didn’t realize his hands had been tightened into tre fists until Torin settled a hand on his shoulder Kai started, then forced his fists open and took in a cal breath "They have no idea," he said "They have no clue what it’s like in the outer sectors, no gratitude at all for the workers that allow them to have the luxuries they do They believe they’re entitled to everything they’ve been given"

"I agree, it’s sickening and perhaps even unforgivable," said Torin, "but we should consider that they have been kept in ignorance as much as those in the outer sectors have"