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My breath rattles out in an unsteady sigh, and I fish around in my pocket for the key I used to let Jubilee out Sean takes it and shoves it into his own pocket, scanning the corridor beyondpast to head up the tunnel

"Sean" My voice makes him pause "Thank y--"

"Don’t," he interrupts "Just--stop" Then he’s gone, no doubt to find some place to stash the key where no one will find it

I walk slowly down the corridor and take a left, ducking away from the noise, the people Except as soon as I find quiet, I can hear Jubilee Chase instead

Nohat, Romeo?

I make my way down a set of stairs, into the darker, quieter parts of the cave coh surfaces of the rocks aren’t smoothed back, and stretches of plastene cover holes to other caverns that would let in drafts It’s only when I round a corner that I figure out whereme--toward the munitions storeroom, where thick ht war To look at a solid, physical reht thumps hard in er can it be until McBride does? Still, he lacks the proof, and while I have breath, I can keep fighting

I just wish I knehat I was fighting for What the world I ould look like The fear and anger in the air tonightright before our eyes McBride’s gaining followers, and soon the tide will turn

I pull a lantern fro the last corner

There’s a twisted hole where the lock used to be on the es burned and blackened by a blowtorch All I can hear isthere for the chain that holds the key It catches againstintowhat it sees, and I realize nobody needed the key to do this

McBride isn’t waiting for the tide to turn, not any to win over the hearts and minds of all our people

I acted alone, and now he’s done the sauns, our explosives, everything he needs to provoke the trodairí into all-out war--they’re gone

She’s hiding under the counter again, and the green-eyed boy is there too They’re listening to the girl’s parents fight

"If we just give theirl’s father speaks in a tight, sharp voice His fear calls to the girl’s fear, and she ss, her palms sweaty

"Let theer "Let thee their rebellion? What about our daughter? Do you think she should help theo to Babel, visit your father He hasn’t seen Jubilee since she was a baby, I’ them turn our home into a war zone"