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He narrowed his eyes at uished "You don’t believe that But you were kind enough to play along"

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Day 391 AF

Sol and I stopped at a fork in the road One as unpaved and rocky The other was a highway, cleared of wrecks, but with litter all along the shoulders

As if a large ar trash on the way

"The area’s starting to look familiar," I said We were at the fork between the treacherous slaver route--the one Jack, Aric, and I had taken to the Lovers’ hideout--and the Azey arhway "I think I knohere we are"

Sol exhaled a relieved breath "Ah, gracias a Dios"

I frowned at him "What?"

"Past that last interstate, I had no clue where I was going"

"You lied" I lowered ry, Sun"

"Why are you whispering?" he whispered "One second you’re crying, the next you’re scary Then you’re really sexy Then you’re sexy/scary"

"You lied to me"

"I didn’t want you to kill me!"

I twirled my thorn claws at hier" Expression growing troubled, he said, "I wonder if soer"

I lowered hway Follow the trash And don’t lie to th was so I could eviscerate the Ehim to ribbons Or should I choke him in vine? Flay him with my thorn tornado--