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Despair robbed me mya strip of cloth froravity makes it the floor Soon as I doze off, the floor beco there like a deep a blindfold fashioned fro

Sleep is the Vale itself I eat again I sleep I eat I sleep I grow bored andto touch the tips of the light as itcrimson or purple There’s pattern to it, a code maybe, but I just can’t crack it

One day or night or afternoon, I fasten ain, and notice a rolled ball of cloth in the vent Making a little hook with a piece of rubber gnawed off from my prisoner slippers, I hook the cloth and draw it toward me

The light illu print It is a e written in blood

“My na Am I alone?”

I stare down at the piece of cloth as if it were a e from an alien race A weird numbness prickles across my face The same numbness I felt when Vanna of Omicron spit in ht

Pure rage

Volga was the nareat Kavax in the chest so that his skin e I ball the cloth in my fist

Yet I do not drop it

Suddenly, all I can remember of the woman is the hollowness in her eyes as she looked down atitself to pieces I know because I felt it too, because I wore those eyes when I knehat Ephraim had used me to do

Was that Volga’s truth? Did she feel the same shame I did? Could it be I wasn’t the only one used by Ephrai Horn? Maybe…or maybe I just want to talk to someone Maybe I just want to prove I’m alive

I bite e of a nail away I dip it in the blood and begin to write on the back of the piece of cloth: “My naht remember me…”

COMMUNICATION ON EAGLE REST has been cut off to all but high-ranking Alltribe personnel Sefi doesn’t want infor out, or possibly in HoloNet access severed Several ofFreihild, were called away for service to the Queen before a scheduled run-through of a highrise infiltration down in Olympia, which was sueneral revoked

Pax and I gossip audibly in case of listening devices, and arrange the peas on our plates in the code he developed for us Having recently gone through Xenophon to acquire fiberwire for the skuggi, I set out six peas Pax, having built the harnesses I requested, sets out two, then seven in query of the ship Sefi proht risk

The door bursts open Electra stalks in