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“Don’t die, Kaine,” she said. The line he walked frightened her. If the array was the punishment for a failure, what would the price of betrayal be?
“There are far worse fates than dying, Marino.”
She nodded. “I know. But that one you don’t come back from.”
He gave a bitter laugh. “All right, then, but only because you asked.”

“Like you then, trapped in place, but still the same somewhere underneath.”

“You’re like a rose in a graveyard. I wonder what you could have turned into without the war.”