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I wash ," Lorn says

"Right Serious faces, everyone" Helmets slide fros, power levels in the digital display "Pri

She activates the leechCraft therh the outer hull of a ship and create a breech large enough for a boarding party to pour through So carving through the floor of a ship is nothing And we’re only one deck above the co to a Helldiver, to et in your path

"You knohat I said earlier," Lorn asks rins evilly behind his beard "Slag tact Terrify the "Burn"

She presses a button The drill glows red Heat radiates up intotheir food, fleeing the roolass The drill falls through the dripping deck into the coain, if only for a reat wooden table, sheaving through and i I cut the power cable withflames as the table catches fire

A hundred Golds of the Society stare up at hts of powerful houses stand with their razors drawn All once loyal to Augustus All now under Pliny’s thu with the wind, as they say

And there he is, at the head of the long table, his face fast paling Beautiful, clever Pliny One eye left, the other sporting a teht sits one of the Furies, the Politico, Moira Compared with Aja, she’s a puffy pastry of a woain as sinister as her sister’s razor Beside her is an Olyht froh the voice amplifier in my helmet "I have co back into my armor so they can see h the hole Arcos first Then Mustang and Sevro

"You said he was dead!" someone to my left snarls, razor half-pulled

"Lorn au Arcos?" h the place as Sevro and Roque secure the doors leading into the room

"And KAVAX AU TELEMANUS!" Kavax booms wildly as he lands Guess Pax had to learn it so down from the drill "Nor am I Nor is s to our father"

These Peerless don’t knohat to do

"Liars!" Pliny cries "You betrayed the ArchGovernor Seize the traitors!"

Lorn makes a simple proclamation "If anyone comes within two meters of Darrow, I kill everyone in this rooer to call his bluff The men I walk between juht to Pliny I don’t break pace

"Pliny," I say "We must speak"