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A Dormant Secret ExposedA COLD GUST OF AIR slapped Blanche’s face, waking her.
She wanted to move, but it was impossible, as her dad held her close. She felt the vibrations as he pounded the steps of the shuttle.
She heard voices, Sabian’s telling everyone to strap on, the whirring of the hatch closing. Her dad murmuring soothing words, how everything would be right, more to convince himself than her. Because she did not doubt the response that had washed her whole body.
She dizzily noted that she was not strapped in her mechanical legs. But she didn’t mind. It had been real long since her dad had held her like this, like a frail child.
She was tempted to open her eyes, but she was afraid to lose the peace and calm she had found in the darkness. He manage
