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“You’ll figure it out” I stroke her hair “You don’t need to do it all at once”

“I can’t go back into captivity and have them experiment on me whenever they want I just can’t The possibility that I could—it’s al”

“You’re safe now” I hold her until she cries it out

The suns rise higher in the sky, and dual bea an intricate shadow pattern across our bodies

She looks up at me and swipes a hand across her eyes There’s peace there and a new deterain

“I’m ready Tell me what I need to do”

Kailani

“Stay ten paces behind me,” he whispers “Walk in my footsteps”

“Got it” I’ because I use my enhanced muscles to leap frorasses with his large boots

“Your breathing okay?” He keeps the saradually picks up inal blue and pink There are clouds, too, the kind that burst with et the flohile they’re intact

“Fine Yes” It took a few s adjusted even faster than his Zandian ones

“I’reat” The cold air on erous locals can’t da around without Kraa slavemastered that inoculation with his help? Itthat was in htmares—and I survived

“I’ve downloaded an ag map of the territory onto my holo We’ll walk a ht find flowers” He turns to look at me

“How did you get such aup between thick gray roots

“Zandians have inforalaxies” His shoulders seem stiff I feel like his voice is different fro from me