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"And ill you do when your people find us gone? They’ll know you helpedlines before tilting his head back to look at htful, alet hih he’s the reason I’etthis stupid I findat the back ofat his face "Good luck, Cor in his eyes, but he doesn’t haveh to knock hiive him a more measured bloith the heel of my hand that sends hiister the pain in ash, the price paid for such quick ri, steady I stifle hten I could so easily roll hi him back to base, and force him to answer for the crimes of the Fianna Orla Cor chip Maybe powerful enough to stop this ithout having to rely on Romeo to stand between his people and McBride

I swear underhie of the dock so he doesn’t roll off and drown I scan the three boats tied to the post he was kneeling by and choose the one whose gas gauge is highest I don’t knohere I aet as far from here as I can, and pray I hit a patrol frolance at Corave me and drop it beside hiet recaptured, the jacket will be a dead giveaway he helped , and the genetag tattoo there is unmistakable noith his sleeves rolled up The coded spiral of data would match his sister’s in the database if I scanned it And yet, it’s clear they’re not the same person Orla would have killed me in the alley behind Molly’s

Voices down the corridor interruptlad when you wake up and you’re still a part of your gang

Revving the motor, I turn the boat and speed out toward the channel

He helpedon hi hi the same for hi this rabble, it should be the voice of someone whose first instinct isn’t blood and violence His place is here, and he shouldn’t be cast out for helping ical ic had anything to do with it

"Don’t watch that show" The girl’s father jabs the power button on the holovid, his dark eyes stor that again, you hear me?"

"But Daaaaad, the other kids watch it Their parents watch with them It’s just cartoons And Mom would like it, they’re all Chinese stories"

"Our fairl Her father looks at her again and sighs "You don’t have to understand, Jelly Bean, you just have to do as I say on this, okay?"

The girl waits, ears straining, until she hears the chi as he leaves Then, her little heart dancing with daring, she crawls over to the set and hits the power button But when the HV comes back on, suddenly she’s not in her parents’ shop any , with a long black braid over her shoulder and a proud, unre She’s been permitted a visitor on this, her last day before execution: a little boy with green eyes and dark, tuo of the wole second of the tento him that the irl, but she’s the only one there, and the HV is too far away to reach The video keeps playing

MY HEAD IS POUNDING Every shout reverberates inside h ainst the stone wall of the harbor, cursing this concussion, waiting to be able to stand without dizziness

As I fight a wave of nausea, two versions of Sean run past, es blurred He’ll have two dozen children to watch, their parents all out searching Jubilee is gone, and with her, whatever chance I had of keeping ht

That fool of a trodaire--this didn’t have to happen If she’d just waited, just let me take her, I’d have had time to come up with--hell, I have no idea what I’d have done, but at least I’d have had a chance to think Instead, this She’s spared me any suspicion from my people that I helped her escape, but at what cost?

By now signal lights, our answer to Avon’s radio troubles, will have spread throughout the swa the boats of our allies to peel quietly away from the docks in town to co wisps dancing in the swa to speak to us The other half the time…well, not even TerraDyn’s scientists have an answer there