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ll Cyrillius right here and now, I find

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would be very interested to hear where you have been the past five lunars. I've had billions of eyes looking

re at the man I hate more than a

and controlled. "May I ask where you fi

he Kinduri dig into his mind, I need them to see what he says. "Brave little cack-she. I'd heard rumors she wa

slip back to me. "So you stole a ship on Korpillion an

, imagining all the way

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an how I should handle this. "I took what I needed and

f me. He's so tall. He towers a full head taller than me, looking down at me w

l on her being brought in alive. He wants her punishe

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other planets. Guess they say get your vaccinations for a reason." I'm faking it, all this confidence. I have to be good at it. I have to be a good liar. "We both picked up a bug on one of the

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pain and I instantly capture it inside of

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ys, looking to the side at the woman who led us into the Compound.

elf before he leaves," the woman

mps, fear showing on my skin in a physical way. "I need something from her

esounding chorus in my brain whe

onsible for the deaths of billions. Edan is just on

I will give one hour of my time as a thank you for your merits," the man says

man behind me yanks me back to my feet and I trip and stum

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ture tonight on her spacecast. I wonder if the

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