After all, the whole point of her healing had been to ensure the survival of the others, to be a fail-safe so that Luc would not die. There was no use in a healer when everyone was dead. She wouldn’t be a traitor. Whatever she’d allowed to be hidden in her mind, she wouldn’t let the Undying discover it. Surviving didn’t matter. She’d kill herself before they learned anything from her. Perhaps her violent captor could be her means to that end. If what Grace had said was true, the High Reeve preferred murder to strategic choices like interrogation. Men prone to violence were generally
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