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ill pay

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on my waist. My hands were working faster than my mind,

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bbing poisonous gas bombs

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about coming back a

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im not to come, but I couldn't bring myself to say it. I

aid, my voice lower than

tes, and the guards moved

the guards said, knowing fully we

st enough to loo

etween Elias and me, before

cold air hit us. I knew t

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