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Ridley slipped away a little after dawn. She’d known from the moment Callie told her what happened that she would go after Archer. The only thing that might have stopped her was confirmation that he was no longer alive.
The supplies Nathan had mentioned to Ridley included not only shelves and shelves of canned food, but a collection of gas masks as well. As Ridley hastily dropped a mask and a few cans into a backpack she’d ‘borrowed’ without permission, she heard Malachi’s voice in her mind: Don’t those things last forever? It had been only a couple of weeks ago, but that conversation felt as if it had taken place in another lifetime. That was the day they’d taken refuge in an old hotel in the wastelands near Lumina City. The day Ridley had finally given herself over to the magic in th
