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"Bryn," I repeat the word and see Fitcher rock slightly on his feet A shortness of breath

"So you’re half Red," I say to Sevro

Sevro nods "Found out couple days ago Weird as shit, righto?"

"Weird as shit You’ll ered species"

Dancer rolls a ers "We all are"

"You knew about Titus," I say to Fitchner

"But Dancer didn’t Don’t blaht you’d be brothers at the Institute A natural affection for your own race But he went dark, and there was no way to reel hihostCloak--like I met with you But his mind broke under the strain I didn’t want to see you break"

"I did break" I look over at Sevro, Dancer "I just had friends to piece ether Why didn’t you tell Titus and me about each other?"

"Then his mistakes would have been yours and yours would have been his In a stor each other down" He clears his throat

"I always knew a Gold couldn’t lead this rebellion It has to be from the bottom up, boyo Red is about family More than any other Color, it is about love amidst all the horror of our world If Red rises, they have a chance to bind the worlds together MidColors won’t Pinks, Browns, can’t Obsidians have failed before And if they succeeded alone, they’d break the worlds instead of freeing them

"So what’s the plan?" I ask "I squabbed up your position next to the Sovereign"

"You’re hard toto adopt you You’re not surprised …"

"It would make sense He wants to tieIt’ll fracture h"

"Does the Jackal care about that?" Sevro asks "See approval Bloody bastard’s building his own empire"

"I’ll have to see," I say

Fitchner continues "Dispose of the Jackal or ustus will adopt you as his heir And he will use you as a Praetor in his arn, he won’t settle for being King of Mars He’ll want to be Sovereign hin, Sevro will kill him and pin it on a rival, maybe the Jackal …"