“I want to let them out too.”
“Are you going to tell me why we shouldn’t?”
“There’s no need of that,” Dalen said. “You already know why we shouldn’t. You said as much at the table.”
Miri felt her mouth tighten as the anger welled up inside her. “Well, maybe I was wrong,” she said coldly. “How do you keep going when there are no good choices, only degrees of evil?”
She was surprised when Dalen hugged her and downright shocked when she returned the embrace. “Maybe,” he muttered, “when this is all over, we can come back and lead a revolution.”
She couldn’t help the burst of laughter that escaped her. “You are a fool, aren’t you?”
“I would have thought that much was obvious.”
Alone in his room and kneeling on the floor, Tommy floated in the Ether’s embrace. He could sense everything aro
