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cry out and grab for it.

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from my skin in

behind them. Others cover their noses and stare at

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though standing besid

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rowd

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" another voice says. "This bond is

at the face

ming me for somethin

les in my mind an

ep toward Dar

not lift

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from the alt

ross the courtyar

e carried me on his sh

ised my father he wou

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guards

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," he

im. "What is

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the hall," my

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ther across the noise, and what I

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hest as the warmth between

till reach

toward somewhere

her

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catch me be

pounds in

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breath and n

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ore I can

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cl

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me and d

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to lead me

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what I just saw. Or if they d

know whic

the hall," my

tighten t

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the pack walls, s

know wh

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them, and I do not know which

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been lying about the

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bond inside me