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I push Jubilee’s arrabs at it, leavingwith eency supplies is still there, and rab the tiny cylinder of the flashlight dangling from it and turn it on; the beam bounces around the two of us as I help her scrae and then crawl up after her We huddle there in a space rit my teeth hard I have to think of a plan, butrieves I want to tell hiet there in tial Instead, I cower here as Jubilee’s tension starts to ease a fraction, and I angle the flashlight to see part of her face Her lips are parted, eyes staring, water dripping unheeded fro I have to put enough life back into her to get us both out of here Sing rief and my revulsion, I lift my hand to brush her wet hair back from her face

She jerks away froe, except for the bloodstains on her face If any of ht now--that this is the time she chooses to finally use my name When I can barely stand to look at her

The soldier I’ve come to know never would have done this, and yet her hands are s my family’s blood on the stone "Don’t check out," I tell her "You have to stay withyou to safety or they’ll find us both"

"You should have let hi

"It wasn’t you" I have to force the words out "It was the Fury" It wasn’t her My own thoughts repeat it, over and over, unwilling to face what I’ve seen Wanting it to so" Her voice breaks, and as she curls in on herself she’s still shaking, but this is different It’s not the tre that came with the dilated eyes or the jerky ly to wrap around her and keep her fro Captain Lee Chase, but a terrified girl ants to press her way into the stone around us and stay there forever "I killed your people You should--you should kill me yourself, why aren’t you?"

"Because it wasn’t you" I’ to make it true for both of us

"You can’t know that!" Her whisper is fierce "Stop it, Flynn, you can’t--just stop it" Her fingers wind into my shirt, at first to push me away, but her resistance cru to ainst my chest

Hot tears track down hting for coet what’s happened and hold her and let the contact between us heal us both But I can’t Even her scent has changed; her hair sunmetal

My heart wants me to wrap my arms around her My heart wants her to suffer for what she’s done

Her shivering worsens, and as if in answer, my body starts to shake as well I reach up and feel around in the netting untilpouch; I activate the seal, then press it between our bodies to slowly heat up

Now and then the h the water and stone to our ears It’s not until there’s been silence for some time that Jubilee speaks