Chapter 27: CompromiseI DRESS ON my own, rustling around behind the wall hangings to find the stash of clothes and decorations and paints and even a pitcher of dust, all prepared and waiting. There’s no sign of Ange or Cass. It’s time to take control of the situation. Even if Cadence’s visions aren’t real, from what the enforcers said, I know the Mara are still taking people in Refuge. If we could reach them and get Refuge out of the way, even with the horror of the Exchange, wouldn’t that be better? One life for so many more? I’ll convince Ravel to save the workers right now. Maybe that’s been Cadence’s plan all along, to shock and motivate me, but that’s almost certainly giving her way too much credit. She’s sick, more twisted than I could ever have imagined. I see through her now. She

