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Knees suddenly weak, she reached for his forearms to stabilize herself. “You came for me.” He beamed, looking for all the world like a selfless, daring hero.“ Don’t sound so surprised.” Dropping the cane, he pulled her into a crushing embrace that tore her away from Wolf and lifted her clean off the floor. “It turns out you are worth a lot of money on the black market.Marissa Meyer
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Captain! To your left there’s a Lunar guard and on your right is a doctor who’s running tests on Lunars and I’m being held by one of Levana’s wolf hybrids and please be careful! ” Thorne took a step back into the hallway a gun from his waistband. He spent a moment swiveling the barrel of the gun in each direction, but nobody moved to attack him. With some surprise, Cress realized that the operative’s grip had weakened.“ Er…” Thorne furrowed his brow, aiming the gun somewhere near the window. “Could you describe all those threats again because I feel like I missed something. .Marissa Meyer
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He leaned forward to inspect her closer. "Is that all hair?".. Sudden, overwhelming panic clawed up Cress's throat. With a squeak, she ducked out of view of the camera and scrambled beneath the desk. Her back struck the wall with a thud that rattled her teeth. She crouched there, skin burning hot and pulse thundering as she took in the room before her– the room that he was now seeing too, with the rumpled bedcovers and the mustached man on all the screens telling her to grab her imaginary partner and swing them around." Wha–where'd she go?" Thorne's voice came to her through the screen." Honestly, Thorne." A girl. Linh Cinder? "Do you ever think before you speak?"" What? What did I say?"" 'Is that all hair?' ""Did you see it? It was like a cross between a magpie nest and ball of yarn after it's been mauled by a cheetah." A beat. Then, "A cheetah?"" It was the first big cat that came to mind.Marissa Meyer
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Everyone is trying to impress everyone else, trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.Marissa Meyer
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Everyone is trying to impress everyone else. to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.Marissa Meyer
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Captain?""Yeah?""Do you think it was destiny that brought us together?" He squinted and, after a thoughtful moment, shook his head. "No. I'm pretty sure it was Cinder.Marissa Meyer
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The other girl, Iko, cupped her chin with both hands. "This is so much better than a net drama.Marissa Meyer
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But was the woman's death the tragedy, or her life?Marissa Meyer
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WINTER SPOILER KINDACinder stared at his whitened knuckles and struggled for something meaningful to say. Her grand plan of revolution and change had just begun and already she felt like a failure. This seemed worse than failing the people of Luna, though. She'd failed the people she cared about most in the universe. Finally, she whispered, "I'm so sorry, Thorne.""Yeah, " he said. "Me too.Marissa Meyer