“I don’t know what we’ll find out there. But when I step on the surface, I never do.” He looked at Ezren and her dad. “I’ve survived people trying to kill me with their fists, wheels, and now bullets, and I’ve stared a dead friend straight in the face.” The men shot furtive glances at each other, and Foster’s resolve only rose with his words. “Royalers know how to run when we can and fight when we have to. Ezren and I can outdrive any one of you fritzers, and we’ll outlast you in these topsuits for days.” He gazed at the helmet in his hand and thought once again of its unlucky owner. “I don’t
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