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"I know" Her voice is clipped, bitter She hates herself for being here For helping me "You lose me, you lose your direct line into the et past the if I lose you I want to correct her, but I haven’t worked out yet what the real end of that sentence is

She sucks in a bracing breath "Listen I’, you need to find a way out of here on your own Steal a boat if you have to"

I can’t read what’s going on behind her cal an alarm "What do you mean, if you’re not back?"

She frowns, but doesn’t skip a beat "They’re probably going to put me on duty soon If it’s the dawn patrol, I won’t et out on your own What is it your people say? Clear skies"

Those words, coive me a chance to reply and stalks toward the door She pauses, bracing one arainst the door frame

"Why couldn’t you have just stayed away?"

"We told you," says the girl’s father, "eren’t interested"

"Noah," whispers the girl’s mother, "look at their eyes"

"Last chance," says the h the crack in the counter and sees hiun tucked into his pants "Hate to go back and tell everyone you’re a Lambda family"

"We don’t support either side," says her irl ether in the front hall of the shop "Please," says her father "We have a daughter"

The world slows to a crawl The girl hears the telltale click of the pistol being cocked, and her training kicks in She dashes from the space under the counter; she pulls out her Gleidel; she throws herself between the gunman and her parents; she takes out two of theunman can aiot them all on the floor, disarmed, harmless