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"I did" She s on inside you"

"Oh" I redden for soot you can blush!" She watches me for a moment "You probably don’t know this, but one of my dissertations on Luna concentrated on ical manipulation theoree delicately "I deehted The cheenus, for instance, has led to a tragically high suicide rate within the Gardens"

Tragically Most would have said "inefficient"

"The rigidity of lawsthe hierarchy are so strict they’ll one day break Fifty years from now? A hundred? Who knows? There was this one case we studied where a Gold woman fell in love with an Obsidian They had a blackans so his seed was cos They were found out and both were executed, their Carvers killed But things like this have happened a hundred times A thousand They’re just scrubbed from the record books"

"It’s terrible," I say

"And beautiful"

"Beautiful?" I ask, repulsed

"No one knows of these people," she says "No one but a handful of Golds with access The huain, not in hate like the Dark Revolt But for love They don’t mimic each other They aren’t inspired by others who co they are the first That’s bravery And that means it’s a part of e are as people"

Bravery Would she say that if she knew one of those people sat across from her? Does she live in the world of theories Har, I wonder," she continues, "till a group like the Sons of Ares finds the records, broadcasts the It’s only aat me as I react involuntarily to the ?"

I can’t tell her what I’y You and I specialize in very different things I alondered what your life was like on Luna"

Mustang eyes ht about ? What is she drea about? What boy is she kiss--?"

She winces at that last part

"Darroant to explain so her off