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Scout stood frozen for far too long, her brain trying to make connections but repeatedly fizzling out.
The woman was still wearing black. Her cloak had done that same familiar spiraling swoosh when she had turned away from Scout. But if she wasn’t one of Bo’s employees, what was she doing on the ship?
Who was she here to kill?
That thought burst the jam in Scout’s mind, and she broke into a run. She turned the corner around which the woman had disappeared, but there was no sign of her. Still, unless she had gone through one of the doors, there was only one other way she could have gone: all the way down that hall.
“Where are we going, Scout?” Warrior asked, jogging alongside her.
“Who was that woman, do you know?” Scout asked. Where did this hallway end? It seemed to go on forever
