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Acelot strolls over to the rug and nudges it with his foot "I’m pretty certain this didn’t have so many holes in it e left"

Marcel dramatically rolls his eyes At fifteen, the Bastet boy is only two years younger than me, but he acts like he’s twelve sometimes He’s immaculately dressed in a crih patent leather boots, like he’s attending a state dinner The fact that we’re on the run fro one of their head Trackers as hostage, doesn’t seeistered with him at all

"It wasn’tsupplies, and when I got back, the rug was on fire I don’t kno it happened"

I can guess I glare at Sebastian, who smirks back at me Blond stubble covers his nor the rose tattoo above his left ear It was a rash decision to bring him with us, but at least this way I knohere he is at all ti He must’ve knocked it off the table soh fire to force Marcel to untie hi

"Could I talk to you outside, Marc?" Acelot says, nodding toward the hallway

Marcel sighs and follows Acelot out of the room while I check Sebastian’s binds Acelot’s voice drifts through the open doorway

"You weren’t supposed to leave Sebastian unattended," he says "What would’ve happened if he’d gotten loose? He could have killed you"

"I was just trying to help!" Marcel replies "God, I can’t ith you ‘Do this, Marc’ ‘Don’t do that’ You’re worse than Dad"

"Hey! I’ my best," Acelot says "Maybe if you did what I said for once, I wouldn’t have to keep nagging you"

"I don’t have to do anything you say," Marcel replies "I’ kiss-ass like Elijah"

"Don’t you dare talk about hirowls

"Why do you always take his side?" Marcel says

Back in our roohs

"Such drareen eyes flash with anger "Watch it, nipper"

"Do you want lances down at the binds around his wrists and smiles coldy "You know, Natalie used to like it when I tied her up like this She’d make these tiny little moans when I--"

I punch Sebastian in the face His head snaps back, and blood spurts out of his split lip He shakes his head, bringing hihs

"Touched a nerve?" he says, licking the blood off his lip

I turn away, annoyed at et under my skin I know Natalie never slept with Sebastian, which is why the jerk cheated on her, but they did date each other for a year The thought makes my skin crawl

Marcel storms into the room and slumps down on one of the chairs next to the table Acelot follows a moment later His eyes flick toward Sebastian, whose bruised lip has started to swell, and he raises an amused brow

"No, Ash," Acelotup our prisoner?"

"That it’s a good thing, and I should do it constantly?" I reply

Sebastian scowls Acelot chuckles and takes a seat beside Marcel

"Sorry about the rug," Marcel mutters

Acelot ruffles his brother’s hair and Marcel playfully swats his hand away, friends again The brothers help h to keep us going until we get to the Tenth Down on the floor issure Marcel hasn’t taken anything--he’s always nosing aroundclothes, a black headscarf, ed to salvage fros, which were left behind in Viridis, including Natalie’s heart medication and a sheet of paper, which she’s neatly folded into a square I open it, curious to knohat it is; we’ve been so busy, I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet

I’ called Project Chrysalis, with all sorts of figures and equations on it that are way beyondStamped at the top of the document are the words BARREN LANDS LABORATORY, and beneath that is a logo of a silver-winged butterfly I’m not sure what this report is about, but Natalie obviously thought it was ih to take with her

I turn to Acelot "Can youit Eventually he shakes his head "Sorry"

I tuck the docu to helpa loose thread off his crimson frock coat, clearly bored "Help et out of here"