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Nicholas Boothman
She wrote it down. “That’s Fragment Eleven.”
“What else?”
His chest rose and fell too quickly. “I was not
broken. I was unspoken.”
Jinji’s fingers flew over her keyboard, recording
every word.
Henry’s body stilled. His pulse spiked.
“Henry?” Carolina asked.
His eyes flicked open, bright, lucid. His voice
was not his own.
“They’re listening.”
The lights flickered.
Jinji leapt up. “They’ve traced us.”
Outside, tires shrieked. Black vans slid into
position around the safe-house.
Carolina slammed the notebook shut. “Too late.”
Henry rose slowly, shoulders squared, his breath
syncing with something unseen.
“No,” he said, his voice calm. “Not yet.”
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