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People were disgusting

On the dank walls underground, pictures of her were pasted everywhere Corday turned

The Pre ten minute moment of silence

Corday had gone through her loss once when she’d disappeared fro to the pain he was in now Everything had gone wrong; further him

Why had they not given hinizable? Thinking back over the last year, obsessing over every last detail, Corday searched for the thread that would explain away his building feeling of foreboding

How many times had he sat in the softly colored blue rooh to speak? Why were they constantly sedating her?

Claire had never complained about it and he wondered if she’d had the mental capacity to understand the extent to which they controlled her She was just one sa the Premier kept sequestered like a pampered pet

Why had they not pulled the plug when she refused to breathe for weeks after she had been found in the Citadel?

And the doctors had been so possessive of not only her, but of the things Claire kept in her room like she was some specimen, or experiment, and everyone wanted to see what she would do

Corday began to have a sinking feeling whatever they had been pu into her was not for her benefit, but for theirs That hy they would not release her body—they wanted to poke around inside first, to take her apart

Did they think she knehere the virus was? Had they been using pharmaceuticals to try and pry it out of her?

Corday had slunk around the building that i was exactly what it claias who could not protect themselves had they been forced to live with the masses in the Undercroft So why had they kept hiiven hiently courting her In hindsight it seeenial Premier Dane

He’d always assumed it had been beneficial to her recovery

But that went back to the original question If she was recovering, then as she constantly sedated?

After the funeral, he returned underground Sitting on a worn chair, tucked into the srotto where he slept, Corday stared into space, distracted by the injustice of the situation