Resist
“Silas is sitting on my bunk. “It was a dream,” he says.I push my hair out of my face. “What time is it?” I ask. Everyone else is up and dressed.“Six in the evening. We’re getting ready for this stupid Pairing Ceremony,” he says.“I’ve been asleep all day?”“I told Vanya you had an iffy stomach,” he says.I think of Crab’s foaming mouth as he tried to kill me and I am breathless again. “Did you tell them?” I whisper. I can’t remember anything that happened after we snuck back into Sequoia. Silas ha...d to half carry me to the cabin.Silas slides closer. “They know we saw a body being buried. We’ll tell them what we did, if we have to.” He holds me by the chin and looks at me directly. “Keep it together, Alina. You’ve killed before.” I shake my head to contradict him. “At The Grove. You think none of your bullets hit those soldiers?”But it was easier then—the troops were far away; I couldn’t see their faces, and I didn’t have to bury them.Silas turns to the others.MoreLess
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