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Her response is an entire page of exclamation marks

GUARD is the next person I contact I’ve told hi and that one of the Loric has been taken into custody He’s happy to hear that John has escaped

GUARD: AWESOME news We need uess thisfor

JOLLYROGER182: what do uwith the Loric, he wouldn’t have had to escape, right?

I lean back in ht If the FBI took John into custody and interrogated Sarah after the fact, they definitely aren’t working on our side

JOLLYROGER182: shit

GUARD: You said it was Agent Purdy as in on the investigation?

JOLLYROGER182: and some others a woman named Walker too

GUARD: Sounds like it’s tiation into Purdy

JOLLYROGER182: i thought u said u found everything you could

GUARD: There are other ways

CHAPTER ELEVEN

SARAH AND I GET OUR FIRST CHANCE TO TALK together at school the next day The FBI--in a rare moment of kindness--didn’t inforht, so for all they knew, Sarah had just been out way past her curfew and got caught up in the attempt to catch wanted-criminal John Smith As part of her punishment, she’s on a strict schedule: one that includes bus rides to and froh and no more quality ti near the entryway of the school pretending to be interested in reading a book for English class when she arrives We lock eyes, and I motion my head towards the deserted hallway that leads to the back of the school’s auditoriuood spirits, which is a vast improvement over the last ti up?"

"I’ht now, but other than that I’m okay" She looks away from me "No word from You Know Who"

"I wouldn’t worry about that Froetaway" And then I realize what she means John escaped but didn’t contact her He didn’t co about you?"

It’s by far more of a question than a statement

"It’s cool I’ve had a lot of time to think it over while barricaded in my room Of course he didn’t coallivanting across the world fighting aliens--or whatever it is he’s doing And dropping by again to see ht, he’ll come back forthat this whole "questioned by the FBI aboutwould snap so to do