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“Are they listening?” I hiss-whisper to hih for any surveillance to hear

“Always,” he murmurs back “We will talk, but not yet”

He releaseslook I stay quiet until he is almost at the door

“You knew, though”

He spins on his heel, red skein of hair whirling dramatically

“Enough, Jax”

“You know my name Nobody else has even asked it But you know it Because you…”

“Enough!”

He crosses the rooin with, thanks to the lack of lih to make me tumble over

“You betrayed oat? Or once Rath was gone, you didn’t think you needed to help anymore?”

“Stop Talking” Tyvian claps his hand over my mouth and presses his lips very close to my ear “Be careful of the accusations you make, and who you make them to”

I wasn’t going to make any accusations, but that was a decision that sixty-seconds-ago-me made Current h too much to behave myself I was minutes from freedom when sohtmare There is no way out of the korabi palace now, not with the tunnels all caved in I anity has been stripped fro with ression

These are all excuses for what I say when he moves his hand away from my mouth

“Suck my fuzkin’ balls”

“Disrespect will get you nowhere”

“I could have been tortured He had a room where the walls are full of knives and whips and instruments that didn’t even make sense in the context of my body He could have killed me slowly and painfully, and you would have let him So please, kind sir, suck my fuzkin’, sloppy balls”

“Interesting that you should fear torture froeon master will allow you disrespect”