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"I told you why I did that"

"Naturally She kills our friend She kills Quinn, but we let her walk away for the grander sche, Darrow Perhaps you’ll soon tire ofsays quickly "You know it’s not"

"What I knoe’re running out of friends," Roque replies "Not all of us are as tough as the Reaper Not all of us want to be warriors"

Of course Roque thinks this life is a choice of , spent going back and forth between his fahlands of Mars His parents didn’t believe in enhanced learning uploads, so they hired Violets and Whites to teach hi in peaceful pastures and beside still lakes

"Tactus didn’t sell the violin," Roque says after a ave hiuilty he didn’t let the sale finalize with the auction house Made the off some of the rust Said he wanted to surprise you with a sonata, Darrow"

The heaviness in ot lost in trying to be thehis friends loved theputs a hand onRoque leans do to kiss Tactus once on the cheek and to give hio into that other world in the full glory of soe Live fast Die young,and me alone with Tactus

"You have to fix that," she says of Roque "Fix it before you’ve lost his"

We sit in the warroorand wooden table Coffee cups and trays of food litter it Mustang sits at my side, boots up on the table, as ever, while she explains rong with her father’s mission Kavax leans forward precariously in his seat, terrified at the idea of Augustus suffering defeat He wrings his hands nervously, so distressed that Daxo takes Sophocles fro’s voice fills the rooave her coade of corvettes rockets silently through space toward the fa the industrial planetwhite

"He dispatched a lurcher squad of Grays concealed in the belly of two tankers They disabled three of the defensive platform’s nuclear reactors Then s and corvettes, as is his way--burning engines and droppingback around

"It was a treasure trove--sohts in dry dock,the ships to be manned by skeleton crews, he boarded them simultaneously He even commanded the leechCraft that boarded the moonBreaker with his two Stained But the ships were not manned by skeleton crews There were no crews at all Instead, they were loaded with Praetorians, Gray lurcher squads And Olyhts"

"And he … surrendered?" Kavax asks in panic

Mustang laughs "My father? He nearly cut his way free He killed the Hearth Knight, then he ran into so through twelve Grays, like a s and shrieks, sparking against the walls, sliding through men and armor till he ht There’s a flurry of tight lunges and then red round Then two men appear One in a sun-crested helether, the round

Lorn looks over at , as the man in the sun-crested arht," I answer "Cassius Theycontinues "Julii ships were also there" She looks at Victra "They finishedSophocles froh she couldn’t even be trusted with the fox "Do you feel aard? You should"

"We’ve been over this," Victra says, sounding quite bored with the accusations "My n She’s not political She cares about money and little else"