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How?

I told them

Silence

They don’t know about you yet Take Heli to safety and stay there Both of you

I felt his resistance

Heli and I can fight thehtas you’renow We’ll head--

Don’t tell me Just listen As I detailed my predicaer Detere to Yelena and Valek They have the best chance Okay? You and Heli need to stay away, I said I will be forced to hurt you Do you understand?

Yes, I understand An undercurrent of ether, this is the third time you’ve told me to stay away

It’s for your protection!

But Kade had severed the connection

With nothing else to do, I changed round during Heli’s escape, but it wasn’t broken Diamonds had spilled I picked the cross-legged, I cradled the orb intodeep inic from mine, but I could siphon it all

Too bad Galen had stockpiled his blood He would reclaim his powers and where would I be? Stuck here, but at least I wouldn’t be able to hurt anyone Unless he used bloodthe power into my skin like he had done for Devlen Then I would crave ic would be gone forever

Right now, est in the co as I found loopholes in Galen’s orders It worked to warn Kade

Of course it could all go wrong, and he would use me to take over Sitia No I wouldn’t let hian, protecting theic I hardly knew theic

I realized dashing off to help others wasn’t a distraction fro, my fortune in diamonds and with assistance from my friends, I could do it I could be Opal without the descriptor I could be an adoptive o undercover to help Fisk with that rival gang the next And I planned to folloith Fisk; he shouldn’t have to deal with such problems on his own

But Galen first I didn’t knoould stop hi?" Galen deic"