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LADI GLANCED AROUND THE room one last time, looking for anything she might have forgotten. Her bag felt light on her back as she mentally rechecked the contents. She’d packed a pulse, her hand tools to open collars, and items that might help on her trek through the woods. She placed a note on the bed, folded in half.
Rasha would be angry. The others probably would be, too. They still looked at her like a rebellious little girl. They didn’t understand that this could end the war. Why didn’t they at least want to try? Her life for the lives of thousands, if it came to that. Wasn’t that exactly what Lu would have done?
The guards patrolled at regular intervals. She listened at the door, and their heavy boots marched by ten minutes ago. She slipped out her room and into the deserted corr
