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“I’ these,” I say

“What do you mean?”

“It used to anger you so”

He stares at me “Did it?”

“Don’t you remember? Sometimes you would hit yourself and call yourself stupid for failing to fool me”

“Did I ever?”

“No”

He puzzles over that for a moment, then looks at Lilath Is it possible that she redacted some of the information Adrius passed down to his clone? By the look on his face, it isn’t the first time he’s wondered it

“She’s lying,” Lilath says, seeing the wedge but not knowing how to blunt it Killing is htest mind in this Solar System” Ah, so there’s the difference This clone has been raised to believe he is a god My brother was kicked and beaten and left on a rock to die more than once One earned his victories The other feels entitled to them

“Are you doing this for Lilath?” I ask the clone “Or is it for Adrius?”

“I am Adrius,” he says

“Do you want to be?”

He tilts his head to examine y after losing two more corvettes

“Don’t let her pour poison in your ear, ht you were ato me, she says, “You betrayed hi hiallows yourself He should have been worshipped by the world But you just stepped all over him You hated him You called him a monster”

“If I hated him, why did I pull his feet?” I ask “If I didn’t love him, ould I keep those puzzles?”