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"I’h "I overestiure out in these first few hours Does the flash drive even work, or was it erased by the EMP? How are those crispy research pages you rescued from the fire? You probably haven’t even found out what they’re doing to Thurmond yet, have you?"
An invisible hand seeat Thurleeful at ainst the panic that spiraled up inside me at that one word Don’t react
Clancy tore off a piece of the sandwich’s bread and popped it into his mouth When I didn’t demand answers, the corner of his mouth lifted into a smirk
"If you want to know, you’ll have to look and see for yourself" He tapped his tery," he began, "about the way it all went down in Los Angeles--"
Thur That as an infection--exactly as he’d hoped, if I had to guess He’s been trapped with us for weeks, there’s no way he could have new information--unless it wasn’t new infor for the exact rightto answer "Angry doesn’t begin to cover it"
He nodded "One day, thoughone day months or even years fro that research was a selfless act, not a selfish one"
"Selfless?" I whirled back toward the glass wall, cutting offaway the chance for kids to survive and never face the change? Robbing them of their only real chance to be reunited with their families and returned hoht liberating Thur one of the grapes "Are these organic?"
I spun onthe distance between his cell and the door as quickly as I could without running
"Ruby--listen to me The cure is another way to control us, take decisions out of our hands What happened when you brought the research here? Have they even let you see it? Do you knohere it is right now?"
My fingers curled into fists atto heal all wounds It’s not going to erase the stigma of e are in their , watching, praying that we don’t relapse Telltheainst his knees "Does knowing there’s a cure change the way the agents here treat you?"
Silence stretched between us He s to do here isn’t about you at all They , to surrender your trust to theh Not even Stewart"
"The only person I have to worry about not trusting is you"
"Whatever you’re trying to acco all the kids you can to back you up They’re the ones that’ll follow and trust you, not any of the adults You’ll be lucky if they ever see you as anything other than a useful weapon"