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Silence

“Go Now,” I say, and my voice sounds exactly the way Eldest’s voice used to

They go

They gruo

Marae moves silently beside me “They still fear you,” she says

“They fear the past They still remember Eldest ”

“It’s enough It worked, didn’t it?”

But I don’t know if it did Because I h authority in my voice to send them all home, but noill they talk about behind their closed doors?

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AMY

WHEN I GET TO THE ELEVATOR AT THE HOSPITAL, MY HAND hovers over the 3 button, but at the last second, I press 4 instead I don’t want to hide in , if I need to be somewhere safeI’d rather be with my parents Besides, the cryo level is one of the safest places for h Elder told everyone about the level after he took the ship off Phydus, few of them cared to see it, and fewer still can access it with their biometric scan On the fourth floor, I race down the hall and roll my thumb over the scanner As the elevator to the cryo level opens, my wi-com beeps

Even though his voice has to travel all the way frohfeeling in e than the descending elevator Someone has died

Soirl in the rabbit fields And nohoever was killed in the City

I have to figure out what Orion’s clues mean He hasn’t told me what choice I’ll have toer that’s going to keep growing until the people pull the ship apart—especially once they learn the ship’s not even

I biteOrion knew this would happen He had this planned from the start, from the moment he pulled me back out of the cryo chamber Whatever secret he’s kept, he knee’d need it now