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“I can’t believe Sefi didn’t trust“Where…” I forget what I was going to say “Agea?”

“We’re not going back to the Republic,” Pax replies “They’ll just make us wait in the Citadel That will not do” Atta boy He looks like a rown But he’s definitely changed The surety in his eyes, the set of his jahen did it happen, when he stopped letting others choose for him?

I ade even as I feel it’s a loss to the world that he’s no longer a boy The world has enough men But maybe he can be a different kind of h

Dammit, my chest hurts There’s a tube ina blood bag Oh I reel it in as he continues “If Aunt Victra et to an escape pod, she’ll have fallen in the northern hemisphere”

“Very specific,” Electra mutters

“Shut up With all the debris, the telemetry was—”

“You shut up You almost didn’t wear your harness”

Pax looks back at et her to wear hers”

“Teacher’s pet”

“Troglodyte”

“Omniprick”

“Hatchetface”

Electra gasps They pout at each other in silence I chuckle “I knew that got under your skin”

“Shut up,” they say in unison

I just grin