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RASHA TURNED OFF HER COMMUNICATOR in time to hear a cry inside the palace. She ran, praying to the Universal it wasn't Duna. She found one of the servants, a young girl, on her knees with her hands over her face. Silae had her arms wrapped around her.
"It's one of the princes, he's dead. Chiza too, I believe,” Silae said in a whisper over the girl's sobs. Tears streaming down her own face, she said, "Jak doesn't have much time left. Go to him."
"Ladi, she's here with the cure, we've got to get it to everyone, find her," Rasha said, already in motion.
Rasha's heart was in her throat as she ran up the west wing stairs two at a time. Where was Ladi? She said they were already here. She'd never run so hard or so fast in her life and was out of breath when she burst into Jak's room. It t
