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The cure is another way to control us, take decisions out of our hands

I stepped back fro us a choice We couldn’twhat the cure was

Then why, all of a sudden, did the past few hours feel like such aelse you can tellClancy’s empty plate from the slot in the door

Clancy returned to his cot There was a new, thicker blanket there now--a real pillow, too A stack of books beside the bed stood up nearly as tall as the cot Apparently Clancy had been a very good boy, if Cole had been willing to bring hi I do That wasn’t the cainal one in Tennessee," Clancy said "Are you ever going to come in, Ruby?"

I leaned away from the door, but it was pointless His eyes shifted over to theand caught lass With a deep breath, I unlocked the door and propped it open with my foot Cole’s hand twitched at his side as he strode towardhis apprehension apart from his irritation

I waited until ere back out in the hallway before openingup a hand "I have this under control"

"Nothing is ever really under control with hi as you’re careful"

"You’re killing h his hair "What is it?"

"I think you have to see it to believe it"

With the others occupied by editing Zu’s interviews and, at Lia their own, Cole and I were left to do the planning for an actual assault on Thur the details I would go in with the flash drive on February twenty-seventh On March first, our team of twenty kids and Harry’s forty-odd soldiers would store and restrain the PSFs--I would need to get the program uploaded into their servers by a quarter till The kids would then be brought to a secure location within walking distance of the camp to wait for their parents to retrieve them Written out step by step, it al officially began with Cole dropping a large blanket of paper overme awake from where I’d fallen asleep at one of the co it away At least fifteen sheets of paper had been taped together to fors of cabins, shoddy brick buildings, a silver fence, and the green wilderness around it

I juet this?"

In response, he caling in his expression, reluctant I took it fro it slowly to ," I said, watching Cole’s face as he watched me