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"My twin," she whispers as though he sits in the corner of the roo else When he looks at us, when he looks at people, he sees sacks of bone and meat We don’t really exist to him" I frown as she clutches my hand "Darrow, listen to me He is the monster they don’t knorite stories about You cannot trust him"
The way she says it makes me know she understands our pact
"I don’t trust him," I say "I need hiht you said I wasn’t strong enough"
"You’re not," she says with a srin "You needfor my rooms soon after The halls are quiet, and I feel a shade drifting through some metal realm I don’t kno to accept her help Or how I should handle her Seeing her with Cassius wounded me more than I’ll ever tell her, and part of me knows not all of it could have been a manipulation He was never a monster; and if he ever becomes one, I knoill be because of me
The door to my suite hisses open A hand settles over nar’s chest I didn’t even hear him "Someone breathes inside"
"Theodora probably She’s my Pink steward You’ll like her"
"Gold breath"
I nod, not asking how he knows, and take my razor frohts are on, nar to find the Jackal sitting in e with a sherry He chuckles at our weapons
"I do ad a bathrobe and slippers
I excuse Ragnar With his wounds, he should be in the es out
"Seems no one sleeps on this ship," I say as I join the Jackal on the couch "I iement a bit"
"Fond of understateht I’d drown in that darand Launched into the sun Beheaded by a political rival Then when it ca so very frail and boyish "It was just a careless coldness Like the rocks of the Institute falling all around ain in that mine"
There is no war after Cassius stabbed y, but I don’t believe it ree "We’ll need your spies htly And you’re stuck here in your father’s court The Politico will try to reuessed, they were forgotten by all as soon as I tipped that wine onto Cassius’s lap
"Pliny will have to go But you and I should maintain social distance until then so he doesn’t know the threat against him is unified Better for him to misunderstand our individual resources"