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Violet hated secrets

She wanted to pretend she didn’t care, to tell hi She did want to knowmore than she cared to ad not to appear too eager

Rafe stopped walking, and Sara and the tech increased their distance by several steps "You really wanna see it?"

Violet nodded, and this time she couldn’t keep the interest from her face

"I could really torture you, you know?" He started to pull his hand froliold She leaned closer And then he shoved his hand back inside again, hiding whatever it was fro her aronna show me, just say so You don’t have to be a jerk about it" Instead of waiting for a response, Violet turned on her heel and hurried after Sara, leaving Rafe standing there

When he reached her, he tugged at her ar with you"

But they were already there And Violet barely heard his words as she stood rigidly outside the door that led to the storage lockers, the place where the bodies were kept

Even fro deeply and o closer but virtually unable to resist

As the tech explained what they could expect to see, his gaze moved anxiously from Rafe to Violetas if neither of them had ever seen a dead body before He looked worried that one of the And it ht have been for any other kids; maybe it was, even, for Rafe She had no idea if he’d ever seen a body before But it definitely wasn’t for Violet

At last he opened the door and let them inside The bodies were still safely entoeration units, and Violet faced a wall of shteen spaces Eighteen units where bodies could be held She had no idea how many of the spaces were occupied From inside several of them, she could already sense the murdered dead

Unable to stop herself, Violet stepped forward, ignoring the surprised look on the tech’s face as she brushed past hi back She tentatively pressed her hands flat against one of the closed doors Fro to find its way out, as if there were a fire trapped within the steel vault Ierated, but even from out here, that door--and only that door--shimmered and rippled, the way heat did when it rose frohway