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“If it’s so great here, then why don’t you stay?” Harlow countered

“You knohy I can’t stay” I zippedshut and turned back to her “I have to find-”

“Your little brother, yeah, yeah,” she cut ht? Izoovernment run facility surrounded by ar him,” I rolled my eyes “He’s just a little kid, and I need to be with hi overto storm out, but she blocked my path “Remy, you know it doesn’t make sense Either he is safe, and you can’t protect him any better than he already is, or he neveryou can do”

“It doesn’t matter! I need to know he’s safe! I can’t just hope for the best and forget about hi about this would only waste et yourself killed, that’s your probleht now?” Lazlo asked when I started walking away, and in reply, I kept walking “But I’ behind o with me They would only slow me down, and they’d probably just end up dead or infected

I couldn’t even figure out why they wanted to leave the safety of the cos mattered et ht up to ly fast, especially considering the clunky footwear she insisted on “I just won’t be left behind”

“I don’t knohat you think you’re being left behind fro”

Lazlo ran up behind us, already out of breath, and we hadn’t even left yet Before leaving, I found Blue talking with London He once again reed both Lazlo and Harlow to take hiave us another shotgun and soift ever: a vehicle They had stockpiled several cars and trucks, and he figured they could spare one Adon with brown paneling, but it was

The car was hidden in an old carriage house in the woods behind the coe or take anything they wanted, so London and Sa of value They rarely used vehicles anyway, since it made theh the intricately linked hallways, so we exited through an entirely different set of doors than the ones we caically placed bushes all but blocked the doorway

When I slid by, the branches stung atan open wound I had gone out first, after Sa until everyone elsechill nipped at the air, the first real chill I’d felt in our travels Time moved differently than it had before, but fall had to be arriving Dense fog settled around us,I heard sounded muffled and far away The circumstances weren’t ideal for an escape plan, but I didn’t want to wait any longer

“It’s over that way,” Sa, the trees looked like shadows, since I could only see the silhouettes “In those trees”

“You’re not cos to do,” Sam replied noncommittally Maybe that was true, but based on his quick exit back into the co just felt… off Like an electricity in the air Uneasiness seeht