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Alarht?"

In a rough voice, Janco told e a fake rescue and his own reconnaissance "checking the base room and"

"And?"

He leaned on the bars as if they alone held hih the bars and put ently this tiotta start confir surprised and ain" He scrubbed a hand over his face

At first, he didn’tup on the significant bits "Who isn’t dead?"

"The brother-sister tearipped ht "Loris and Cilly Cloud Mist?"

"Yeah, them"

That meant Bruns and the authorities in Lapeer had lied No surprise about Bruns’s deceit; I wasin Lapeer Had he been bribed or coerced, and why the ruse? "Are you sure?"

"No doubt," he said drily "Loris is living below the dining room He claimed his sister is alive, as well She’s at one of the Cartel’s other garrisons"

"Was Ben with hiestured to his bruise "Did they--"

"Nope I turned tail and hopped right on out of there like a good little scared rabbit Made it about halfway through the dining rooical ed another couple steps"

I squeezed his shoulder "You couldn’t have predicted they’d be here They were reported dead by Devlen--a reliable source"

"And Dev trusted the captain Which ya think would be an okay thing to do, considering all Fleuess that’s a puzzle to be sorted out later" If there was a later

"Yeah Too bad I knew exactly as gonna happen when they dragged me to Bruns" He shuddered

And now his mind-raped co, Yelena Leif’s hiding place, Dax and Hale’s involve" His covered his pained expression with his hand

While I wished to panic over the dire news, I suppressed the e closer to the bars, I pried his hand away from his face and held it in both of mine "Ari and the others are sic They’ll be okay"

He stared at our hands After a long ?"

"Uhco"

"No, not that" He pulled his hand free, scowled at the air, then grasped naled, The ic disappears when you touch me

Like a null shield?