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"You weren’t there" My voice breaks despite my attempts to find calot there, covered in blood You didn’t see the--"

"Hey, shh" Merendsen gives lance toward the door, though Flynn’s long gone "He left"

"He needs time to understand"

I shake hs "You know he’s falling in love with you, right?"

My head snaps up, h ed it "Don’t be ridic--"

"Coht Flynn told me he could prove I had a soul, that I wasn’t heartless; the night he kissed me I think of the way he washed the blood froain I think of his face, standing in the back doorway of Molly’s, watching me with Merendsen

"They all think they’re in love with me at some point or another," I say finally, uncomfortably There’s a difference between the way Flynn acts and the way the new recruits act when they first start taking orders froet over it"

"And he’s like all your rookies?"

My heart pounds in the silence, sto up inside me "It doesn’t matter if he’s different," I whisper "We’re on opposite sides We’re enemies, he and I"

Merendsen’s uy ’s insurmountable"

That, at least, makes me smile a little in return "I hardly think class differences are quite the same as ‘my people try to kill his people and vice versa’"

His s that happened to us on that planet Believe me when I tell you it wasn’t just that she was rich and I was poor"

I s, dropping my eyes "You didn’t have to wash the blood of your people off her hands Sos you just can’t live with"