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"I think he broke Daxo," Pebble giggles

"Does anyone smell that?" Clown asks

"I smell bacon," Daxo tries There’s a crunch as he bites into a piece

"No," Clown says "Smells like a suicidala planet and abandoning his friends to get hi fool"

Daxo sniffs "That’s a particular scent"

"Oh, Darrow dear," Clown calls "Are you lurking behind the door?"

Mustang pushes lides to his feet and pulls els on his bald head glitter in the reet s than I’ve ever received froesture There is stillto be done

I gorge myself on breakfast asaway ti since I’ve had either that I’ve nearly forgotten how to do nothing Mustang has to kiss my ear and tell me to relax three ti to esa pair of deer eat from a feeder underneath an old elm He doesn’t turn to look at rass The sea so grew up," I say "It’s wild and tranquil all at once"

"My hoh I snuck off to the country with my tutors whenever Mother ay Which was often She see out here hile That the business of cities was ht, isn’t it?"

"For land?" I ask

"For peace, in whatever e find it" He turns to ht?"

"So to the deer and the land "I didn’t have this growing up Anything I have noill have in the future I have to earn But you’re right It’s why I fight, so I can have this for me and the people I care about"

His eyes search ize to you, Roque"

"Oh?"

"Since the Acaderanted I shouldn’t have done that Not when you’ve always been so kind to me"

"I didn’t mind that it was always about you, Darrow That hat burned Tactus, but norI don’t worship you like Sevro or the Howlers I was a true friend I was soht and your dark and accepted both without judgenda And what did you do to me? You used me like a man uses a horse I’m better than that Quinn was better than that"

"Are you better than this friendship?" I ask quietly, afraid of the answer