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"And really psychotic? Is that your excuse? Is that why every last one of you turned into ?"

"It definitely had soine You freed us and then you left us" He looked over his shoulder "For her Then you caive up on you I let you go I let you escape, because I thought I was doing the right thing"

"You killed all of thein stepped away from me, his attention fully on Luc "You didn’t look for me You didn’t even take a second to findfor a long one"

"Did you? You must think that Just like you think you destroyed the Daedalus"

The breath I took got stuck

"Where do you think I’ve been this whole tile reaction to the suggestion the Daedalus was still operational "Took et here, but you don’t know that You’ve had other,you Watching I’ve been so close, trying to figure out how you could just"--he looked up to the sky and shrugged--"let o But then I saw her at the club and I knew"

"I let you escape, because I was operating under the false belief that you weren’t a sociopath That out of all those little creeps, you were the one as going toYou’re just as psychotic"

My eyes widened slightly

"So, what’s the point of all of this? You came and you found me, then you waited, and nohat? We’re here You and o, and then you and I can work this out"

"If I let her go, I don’t think she’llabout what I did to her I’ about what you had thehtest "What does that s," he said, and I could hear the taunt in his voice "You have no idea what’s cole brow "Well, that’s incredibly vague"

"It’s really not" He paused "By the way, looked into her thoughts She thinks I killed that fauy at some party That wasn’t me"

"And I’m supposed to believe that? Because you’re obviously a trusting and sane individual?"

"Perhaps I would be trusting and sane if you just paid attention If you tried with htened the lines of Luc’s face "Maybe if I had done so differently, you would’ve turned out differently"

"Maybe," the Origin agreed, but then dipped his chin and sain, I was always smarter than the rest, wasn’t I? I hid it better Even froin ever created The prize and ulti to sound like a fan," Luc replied, his tone bored

"But I know the truth" He circled Luc, co to his back, and Luc still didn’t take his eyes off ineer out of you"

"Is that so?" Lucto my hands

"Humanity," he answered "They didn’t eradicate that from you That’s why you let inonly a few feet froin cocked his head, solely focused on Luc "Say o of one side ofuntil I found a decent-sized rock