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"Goddamn it, why Tell me you had a reason to let everyone die"

"I had a reason"

"More important than the future ofwith" Maybe that attack had kept Richter frootten bonebreak fever and died in agony "How can I trust you again?"

"Atte hi Russian roulette with more than one bullet in the chaht you’d want to see her"

"Of course I want to! Desperate to But unless you got a hacksaw" My blurry eyes tried to follow his odda rescued?

Dizziness had the ht pass out, coo-yôn You got a plan to get us out of here?"

He knelt to saw "No plan"

Merde! "You ready to fight your way out of here, boy?" I asked, though he’d never lifted a finger to fight in the past "If we doan win, they’re goan to catch us and lock you down here"

When he peered up at ain, my blurred vision failed to place hi another face Or abeside

Then he gave ain He truly didn’t have a plan

All the sudden I could read the future By tonight, he would be in chains, and I’d be butchered

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The Empress

Creepy book in hand, I sat beside the fire in Gran’s rooh, the E crazy, had gone crazy, orHad she truly shown the book to otten so scrambled?

Both Matthew and Selena had said e had been passed down verbally or so an ancient-looking book out of her bag, having trouble lifting the weighty thing The battered leather of the cover looked like the skin of a Bag down on her bed, looking ten years older "No wonder you hesitate to kill theedy

Now she watched ?" I shook ht when you went away, and I was forbidden to talk about anything you taught h to know that Morandmother for her beliefs Why wouldn’t I have pushed Arcana stuff froot older and I had visions of the apocalypse, Mom blamed you, so she sent otdeprogrammed"