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Part ofto a new schedule, but he has not returned yet I suppose he’s better off without ainst the wall, a firiant lass When I pick it up, so from the back of the fra wildly as I drop toto find so more than a book

DespiteOf course Julian would leave me another story, another collection of words to coer can

I flip open the cover, expecting to find some new histories, but instead, handwritten words stare up at e Red and silver It’s in Julian’s unht line ofme I am not alone Julian knew that too Brilliant Julian

The book looks nor the words, in the sa It takes rateful I woke up so early Finally I have theotten how to breathe

Dane Davidson, Red soldier, Storust 1, 296 NE Jane Barbaro, Red soldier, Storion, killed by friendly fire, body cremated Noveion, executed for insubordination, bodyover the last twenty years, all of them cremated or their bodies lost or "misplaced" How anyone can misplace an executed man, I don’t know The name at the end of the list ion, executed for desertion, body cremated July 27, 320 NE

Julian’s oords follow ain, slowly and cal to military law, all Red soldiers are to be buried in the cemeteries of the Choke Executed soldiers have no burials and lie in raves Cremation is not common Misplaced bodies are nonexistent And yet I found 27 names, 27 soldiers, your brother included, who suffered these fates

All died on patrol, killed by Lakelanders or their own units, if not executed for charges without base All were transferred to the Stor And all of their bodies were destroyed or lost in soion is not a death squad--hundreds of Reds serve under General Eagrie without dying strangely So why kill these 27?

For once, I was glad for the bloodbase Even though they are long "dead," their blood saize, Mare, for I have not been entirely honest with you You trusted me to train you, to help you, and I did, but I was also helpingI have ever seen I couldn’t help myself I compared your blood sample to theirs, only to find an identical marker in them, different from all others

I’ for it But now that I knew, it was easy to find Your blood is red, but it is not the sa no one has seen before And it was in 27 others Ayou are

You are not the only one, Mare You are not alone You are simply the first protected by the eyes of a thousand, the first they could not kill and hide away Like the others, you are Red and Silver, and stronger than both

I think you are the future I think you are the nen

And if there were 27 before, there must be others Thereand nothing Others likethe mutations in your blood, I searched the rest of the bloodbase, finding the same in other samples I have included them all here, for you to pass on

I know I don’t need to tell you the importance of this list, of what it could mean to you and the rest of this world Pass it on to someone you trust, find the others, protect them, train them, for it is only a matter of time before someone less friendly discovers what I have--and hunts them down

His words end there, followed by a list that ers tremble There are na to be found All waiting to fight