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He wanted to kill the ain Slowly

“I fell back And you knoas worst about the entire thing? He just ignoredthat—,” she shuddered, “—unspeakable act”

“There was a rock beside me I didn’t knohat else to do He dropped the knife when I hit hi anymore”

Her eyes were haunted but her face coirl, Chere, helped e the body so no one would know and—” She looked at him defiantly “And I’m proud of what I did!”

He couldn’t stay ier “Good”

“Good?”

“He needed to die You saved that girl You lived Good”

She was still pacing manically He stepped in front of her She almost ran into hiht her by the forearainst his bare, scarred side She’d just trusted him with her darkest secret Time to return the favour

“I can’t feel it It o years after Cordova Our Eagle was attacked and ent down Pilots dead,in We climbed to a defensible position in thesecure the LZ and we didn’t know it at the tiseason”

He saw her fingers press on the scars, heard the hiss of air between her teeth She’d clearly heard of the oversized creatures, a legacy of the nuclear and biocheued the Republic in its infancy

“It was a ed for one of our men and I pushed him out of the way”

“You were trying to save him?”

Her eyes were full of such hope

He shook his head “Nope I was trying to die”

He couldn’t read her face and for some reason that scared him