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Of course, s about Raffe that haven’t panned out My cheeks warht of what happened with him earlier today in bed

He flips the collar on his coat and buttons it all the way up to cover his bare chest, then puts on his cap Even though we had a warh that he won’t look suspicious California nights can easily be twenty degrees colder than the days

‘Stay here, Paige We’ll be back soon, okay?’

Paige is already busy quieting her locusts and hardly see her, but I can’t take her into cahtened Resistance people lassoed her like an animal, and who knohat they would have done if the locusts hadn’t attacked I can’t expect the angry villager attitude to have changed since then

As soon as we startaround, but I don’t see anything On the edge of

‘Locust victi this means that they haven’t been accepted into caerous, but I restcomfort in the soft fur Then I take a deep breath and continue through the dark grove

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The school grounds are quiet and seeuesstimate that there must be a few thousand people here now But you’d never know it

Obi has done such a great job of setting up the refugee camp that even the new people follow the rules They know not to walk out in the open The areater and no worse than trash floating anywhere else in Silicon Valley The entire campus is so quiet that I’d alet close enough to the buildings, we can see the di inside The s are covered by blankets and towels, but soht and es

I step up to aand peek through a crack The room is jammed with people They look reasonably well fed, sonize theh anotherand see the same With this many new people, the whole place h one ho co of food He passes it out, and it’s gone in no ti to the people still reaching out to hiuet too heated

The lucky ones gobble up their food as fast as they can while the others watch with an intensity that’s unco until a whole new group of people stand in the pri for the next batch of food

‘What are you doing?’ asks a harsh voice

I spin around to see two guys in ca’

‘Well, do your nothing inside where the birds can’t see you Weren’t you listening during the orientation?’

‘I’ for someone Do you knohere the twins are? Dee and Duuard ‘Like they have ti for her lost puppy Next thing you know, you’ll be asking to see Obadiah West Those guys have a whole camp to run They don’t have time for stupid questions’

I can only blink at the some stupid questions They point us to the nearest door

‘Get back to your assigned roo food as soon as they can, and you’ll be shipped to a nice hotel rooh to hide the envoy’