52
Freedom
Cade still felt light-headed as he sprinted through the main concourse of the ship, but it was no time to rest. He saw a tall man in the doorway in front of him. He wasn’t too late.
The man who had killed his brother stood before him.
“Your fight is with me, Acolyte.”
The man turned around, glaring at him. His eyes were wild and hungry. He wore a twisted smile, the same one Cade had seen at the Taction. His movement seemed unnaturally controlled and calculated. Cade could tell this Acolyte was different from the others he had faced in the Thread. Where the eyes of the Acolytes at the Thread were blank and distant, this man’s eyes were present and filled with blind rage. Meeting Cade’s gaze, his eyes glimmered.
“For my brother.” Cade leveled Justice at the man and pulled th
