Chapter 20: ExchangeIT’S NOT THAT I don’t realize something’s wrong. Cadence’s shocked gasp would have clued me in, if nothing else. It’s just . . . his attitude makes sense, even if it is kind of horrible.
People die. Refuge can’t protect them, and they should know that. But, if they’re not ready to know, not ready to learn to live another way, isn’t it better to leave them be? Doesn’t each one of us have to choose to learn, choose to obey or to rebel for ourselves?
Isn’t that why I ran away from Refuge when I first learned the truth? Because there’s no way someone like me could convince anyone of it anyway? Well, that and it wasn’t safe for me there, and I was being chased by enforcers, and Cadence had lied and said she knew what she was doing. But mostly because I knew it was impossib
