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I press ainst the sealed door "Others," I repeat, so confused I’ that took Flynn?"

Flynn shakes his head There’s nothing to suggest he’s changed; his eyes are still black, his face still devoid of emotion "Once, ere all the same Part of each other But that hen the rift still connected us Noe’re alone And I do not wish for the kind of freedom the others want"

For the first time since Flynn turned those euttering flame that makes my eyes burn I want so badly to believe the creature I want so badly not to be alone But I tighten hto--I don’t know If you really were different, you’d let Flynn go You’d give him back to me"

"We can’t"

"What do you o if I helped you"

"The others have learned deception It is a hu makes Flynn shake his head "When we take aback His ed beyond repair if I tried to leave hies in me "You took o to the rebel hideout, and I came back, and I was fine My mind’s intact"

"You’re different" Flynn’s eyes stay on aze I can’t shake the disturbing feeling that he can see hts

"Different Soulless, like the men say?"

"The opposite" Flynn’snot very , it’s just a reminder that it isn’t Flynn, not really That smile should be his, forhis ot me confused with soentle," the whisper interrupts "I cannot hold off the others forever You hter of Mei-Hua and Noah Chase, and we have been together for a very long time"

It’s like someone’s punched me in the stomach I can’t breathe, I can’t see--asp for air

Flynn isn’t done He’s watchinga particularly fascinating chemical reaction "You’ve felt our touch before, ere first learning to understand your kind When you were young and malleable This has er Your soul stronger We remember you" He pauses, hesitation briefly so human, so fa it all" The frag me with pieces of truth, too fractured to help hosts I rerief "Then it was the Fury that caused the riots there You made those people kill my parents?"