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"Her Highness is here?" Cal bites out For a second, I’otten hiht of a lie But suspicion flares in the captain all the same I see it like an explosion in his eyes

Blessed Nanny laughs aloud, her forced chuckle cold and detached "Mother has always done as she likes, you know this," she says to Cal, scolding him "But I am here on other business, Captain No need to bother her"

The captain offers up an obliging s his fine features into soly "Very well, sir"

Kilorn taps ent He sees what I see The captain no longer believes us Turning, I take Canal Undershe has into blocking Eagrie’s ability, to keep hi Confusion crosses his face, but he shakes it off, trying to focus on us He doesn’t understand what’s happening to him

"And what have you co his pointed, deuid step toward us It will be his last "Remove your helmets, if you please"

"No," I tell him

With an easy breath, I take hold of the cameras pointed down at all of us As Iral opens his mouth to shout, I exhale, and the cahts go next, flashing on and off, plunging us into pitch-black and striking brightness in succession We are prepared for this The soldiers of Corros are not

Flaht across the white It bars every door, ju the soldiers in with us and the flickering darkness The Osanos soldier, a nyh to co fire A stoneskin rushes atto rock before my eyes, but he hits the wall known as Nix Marsten Darmian joins in, and the two invulnerable newbloods set to taking the soldier apart The others fare just as well Ketha obliterates the Provos telky, planting an explosion in his heart that rips him from the inside out The Haven soldier does her best to co her ability to collapse the shadows, pooling the, brilliant light Even our hellare, and I have to shut round, with a deep gash in her neck She coughs silver blood onto the tile, and rie drops to his knees, clutching his head and screa at his own eyes Blood joins his painful tears "I can’t see anything, what’s happening?! What is this?! What are you?!" he shouts to no one

Cameron is the first to pull off her helmet She has never killed a man before, not even in her escape I see it all over her face, in the horror twisting through her But she doesn’t let go Out of bravery or malice, I can’t say Her silence takes hold, until theHe dies with his eyes wide open, staring at nothing, blind and deaf in his lastburied alive

It’s over in a minute or so Twelve Silver soldiers dead on the tile, some burned, some electrocuted, some shot, some with their heads bashed in Ketha’s kills are the messiest An entire wall is splattered with her handiwork, and she pants noisily, trying not to look at what she’s done Her explosive ability is gruesonetron with Gareth She got a shard oftoo bad Farley is the first to her side, and pulls out theit clatter to the floor Lory doesn’t so es," Farley ot bandages," Ada replies, pulling a small swatch of white fabric from inside her suit She expertly ties it around Lory’s arm It stains in an instant

Kilorn chuckles to himself, the only one to enjoy a joke at a tiht, focusing on reloading his gun The barrel smokes, and there are at least two bodies riddled with his bullets Anyone else would think hihter, Kilorn finds no joy in this bloody work

Neither does Cal He bends over the dead Captain Iral, gingerly taking the black key from his neck I won’t kill them, he told me once, before we stormed the Security Center of Harbor Bay He broke his own promise, and it’s wounded him more deeply than any battle