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“I have to go”

“Hey”

I turn back to look at her before I e into the crowd There's some sadness in her eyes, and confusion

“Didn't you miss me?”

The fuzkin’ nerve of that question I take three quick steps and a around Lyric's appearance aside, the size of this Blindspot and the nuer policing Megaris so aggressively They’re letting the city regulate itself I like it

Fourteen

Rath

“She says Krush is intending on reclai the throne”

My little huh te old friends was less pleasant than she io unsupervised because she knows this city better than anybody, and she is as capable of surviving it as I a Jax back, thereby isolating Krush and letting us take full control again But my plan, and hers, failed to materialize

“Not possible The palace is secured to levels never seen in three reigns,” Tusk says “If Krush tries to so much as set foot in the korabi sector, he will be instantly vaporized by dozens of drones”

Lyric shoots him a death stare

“I can’t do this”

She flees the chah speed for aon leaving her to her own devices

I find Lyric on our bed, her arms wrapped around a pillow, a scowl on her face There are tears running down her face I am quite stunned I have rarely seen her cry

“What’s wrong?” I hold her close and try to coe inside me to see her like this, but I have learned with my human that there are some monsters only she can slay

"Jax hates me,” Lyric says nuh”

"We couldn’t coh against hers”

“That's a nice way of saying we left her to die”