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"About as good as knowing you’ll never experience it for yourself again"

"It’s incredible how things have turned out," he said "A year ago, you were still in that camp, still behind that fence Now look at you Look atat you," I told him "And all I see is someone asted every chance they had to really make a difference for us"

"But you understand now, don’t you?" he asked, surprised "You see why I made the choices I did Everyone survives in their oay When it really coed any of the decisions you ood or bad? Would you have stayed in Thurmond, with the opportunity to escape within reach? Would you have gone straight to Virginia Beach, not let them convince you to try to find East River? Would you have sealed off the younger Stewart’sway It’d be a shame for our friendship to end here"

"I think there was a compliment buried in there somewhere?"

He snorted "Just an observation I wasn’t sure you had it in you I’d hoped, though"

"Oh, really?"

"Didn’t you ever ask yourself why I wanted you to come with me after East River was attacked? It wasn’t because I liked you all that much"

"Obviously not You wanted me to show you how I messed with others’ ather people around me who could step up and help me build this future Granted, I probably wouldn’t have wasted tiy I would have taken us straight to the top I still will"

"If only you weren’t trapped in this little glass cage," I said flatly

"If only" Clancy set rid of everyone now--if what Stewart, the elder Stewart, told overnment’s credibility I’ll take it a step further My father His moronic advisors The camp controllers One by one, I’ll tear their lives apart The thing is, Ruby, you can stand at the head of those kids, and they’ll listen, they will, if for no other reason because you’re an Orange and it’s the hierarchy of things But you can’t bring the world to its knees the way I will"

"The way you will, huh?" I asked, knocking against the glass "When’s that?"

One corner of Clancy’s lips turned up, and I felt a cold drip of so run down n with the right side of history," he said "I’et hurt"