AVERY I wasnt sure how I had somehow succeeded in convincing the General—who had told me to call him Wyatt—that the moon weakened Cyrus, but somehow, I had and right now, Cyrus was being escorted out of his cell and into another room at the opposite side of the facility. Following at a safe distance behind him, I watched. The guards weren’t exactly being rough with him, so I guess I could stomach it. I wasn’t sure that I could watch anything happen to him especially now that there was no way for him to defend himself against them. Some men they were. Keeping a man shackled while they totrtured him. Beated him. They weren’t half the man that he was. I couldnt believe that I left him. Couldn’t believe that I had even thought about it. That alone, told me that I needed to wor

