“Has anybody talked to Doc Tuttle about you?” Tegan shook her head. “I haven’t given anyone the necessary encouragement. Anyway,” she continued, “it was always you. Fade talks about you with me sometimes, you know?” A burst of warmth flared in the pit of my stomach. “I had no idea. What … what does he say?” “How you ran through the tunnels together, hiding from Freaks, and watching each other’s backs. Fade told me you saved him down there.” “He saved me too.” So many times, and in ways I couldn’t describe, as if I had been dying of a wound I didn’t know I’d taken. “He also said it was the
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