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Sounded like so he’d say! Could this truly be coo-yôn? My heart got to pounding-- throb like the devil "You real?"

In a too-loud voice, he said, "We’re leaving"

"Shhh! You are real" I choked out words: "Did Evied-didfor his answer The next few seconds would decide whether I hoped for a future--or accepted the end of a life that already felt too long

Every e kid’s next words All the pain All the confusion And then that sweet, sweet tieline Greene was all irl’s alive" Relief htheaded "Alive" I shuddered, and rew daot her killed like the rest"

"Tredici saved her"

"Tre-what?" Was he talking about Doured as much

"Death!"

"Quiet, coo-yôn" I slept apart fro "I gotta get to Evie" I tried to scra Only busted nashout "How’d you sneak past the guards?" Shackled slaves could uards kept anyone froed "Mad skillz"

"Who’s with you? They coet free of this hellhole! I’d get back to ue"

I tried sitting up again, slowly "What’s that mean? Is Evie close?" God, let her be

"I’m alone"

The fuck? "No other Arcana with you? Then I’o" I sank back against the stone wall "Tell her I love her Tell hertell her I’ll see her again Somewhere, someway Now leave!"

He shook his head and covered his lips with a forefinger He was shushing o"

Started to ask him if he was crazy Already knew the answer to that, me "You must mean I’m about to die You here to seetopside?" I squinted again Was that blood on the backs of his hands?

Blood on his hands Just like I had blood on mine An army’s worth "Why didn’t you warn rabbed the hem of his coat "We lost Selena to that fils de pute We lost an army"

"I see far"