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Then, at last, she screams

I’ve never heard anything like it Not when I look at her Not when I reach the end of the tunnel with Victra and hear her pain echoing after us It is the screao Victra and I hear it, but we do not turn back

Haret it to the end I don’t miss the lesson

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The slaves have left the Red Hand soldiers dying on the ground in their quest for the surface We find theathered with nearly a hundred Red Hand prisoners in the center of the Coroup of bloodythem to search for an exit Six are Obsidian, the rest Red with crooked Gails branded onto their foreheads

I thought I was nu Lion sits with Freckles on the far wall The older girl is crying and holding on to Lion Lion squirht in her hand

Soirls kick downed Hand men More women descend fro here The wives Some of the slaves watch warily as the wives pick up rifles only to point them at other wives and push them in with the men Some throw stones at their tormentors or pull their hair or try to brain thee beyond words

It isn’t my place to stop them

“Door out is shut,” Victra says

Volga wheels fro toward her She looks like hell, but drops her pulseRifle to wrapShe spares a nod for Victra

“How did you—” Volga begins

“Later,” Victra snaps She picks a piece of metal out of her bare foot “Harmony’s…dealt with, but she said they have a torchShip If that’s true, we have a problem?

?

We do have a problem While Victra may have sealed the doors, the ca in clumsy fashion Soon we see why Via the cahland trees shiver as soht Soon a shadow stretches across the rises from the sea

The chair creaks as Victra leans back “Well, girls, it was a nice run”