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By the way Sefi’s looking athouse

She watchesdeep intoaway toward Electra, who is still on her feet

“Who did it?” the girl deustus? Is my father alive? Tell us!”

“We do not know,” Xenophon answers “Publius cu Caraval seeator and perpetrator of the coup, and allied with ArchIovernment We have confirmed this with Niobe au Telemanus, who now leads the Ecliptic Guard to Luna to den’s return Whether she is dead or alive, we do not know”

“Publius? That dreary little shit?” Electra is stunned “Naw He doesn’t have the juice, even with Zan”

“He is likely the puppet of Atalantia,” Sefi says At that, Pax loses his ability to listen He stands, quivers, and bolts frolares down at Sefi

“How long have you known? Three days? You cold bitch”

Sefi nods “World is hard He must be too”

“You weakened her by leaving,” Electra snaps “You abandoned the know it”

“Your mother weakened her too”

Electra flinches at that and storard pursues Valdir watches the child go with a deep sense of sadness He is more complicated than just a warrior The loyalty he feels to Darrow must be immense, and I wonder if Sefi isn’t the villain here after all

“You didn’t have to do it like that,” I say

“I did not bring you here to play nursemaid to children or lecture me, Mr Horn You asked me when first we met what Julii would pay for her firstborn Today, I tell you She has provided us with inforions under nose of Republic fleet”

At Sefi’s instruction, Xenophon still steps forward to fling a holo onto the opera stage where Amel’s remains still burn Blueprints unfold from a tiny mote like the tendrils of jellyfish My eye darts, ineers the Byzantine mess to see the hundreds of complexes, sophisticated killzones, subterranean bunkers No Not bunkers I feel for my Z dispenser

“I was right You want to start another war”