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Chapter 13: Ninety Seconds
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2026-10-31 03:45:40
TosinwritesWho do you think is the jasmine spy? Grey-coat woman or someone else? Comment your guess — I'm reading all comments before Ch 14.
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The radio on Cassian's belt crackled before the last words of his order had cooled."The doors have been sealed," Tristan said, his voice coming through hoarse and fast. "All of them. Every level, every stair, the north and south gates, the service hatches. It took four minutes, and I've got green on every panel. Nobody has gotten out, and nobody will.""Nobody's gone out," Cassian said. "That doesn't mean she hasn't gone somewhere.""That's what I'm afraid of," Tristan said, before a slight pause followed. "Aurora? Are you there?""I'm here," I said."I'm sorry about Pell."I didn't answer. I stood at the foot of the empty cot with the grey coat in my hands and breathed in the smell of jasmine until it made me dizzy, and then I put it down."How many places are there to hide in this fortress?" I asked.Tristan was silent for a moment. "Counting the caverns, the crawl spaces, the cable ducts, the cold stores, and the habitat modules? Over two hundred. And every one of them has a door I
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"Nine days," I said.The words tasted bad in my mouth, like wet clay on my tongue.Cassian had already turned and was running down the corridor, and I went after him, and found that my legs had very little left in them. After I left the vault, I felt hollow, as if someone had scooped out the center of my being and left an empty shell standing."Aurora," he said, over his shoulder, "slow down.""I'm not slowing down.""Then I'll carry you.""Don't."He slowed down and dropped back, waiting for me to catch up, then gently placed an arm around my waist, and let me place most of my weight on him.The lamps were still dark. Tristan's order had been followed properly. We went through the infirmary by the light of Cassian's torch, past rows of cots where patients lay with their blankets drawn up to their chins and their eyes wide open, watching us pass without a word.Imara was waiting at the storeroom door. She had a lantern in one hand. When she saw us, she stepped aside without speaking.
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The bell rang again, the fourth time since the quake that shook the fortress from within, and every soul on the east wall flinched at once.Cassian and I were still standing where the first toll had found us, at the parapet above the long wall.Nobody had moved. Men who had held this wall through blizzards, ropes, and hooks from enemy forces gripped the stone with white knuckles.Somewhere down the line, a child began to wail. A woman was praying aloud in an almost hysterical manner, her words tumbling without meaning.It was not a sound you heard so much as one that came up through the rock, into your feet, teeth, the very bones of your body.The vault was ringing, and it was calling for me."Hold your positions, men!" Cassian's voice cracked across the rampart like a whip. "It isn't an attack. Hold your positions!""Aurora." He held both my shoulders. "Look at me. Say something.""It's not going to stop.""Then we make it stop.""You can't." I tried to laugh, and it came out a gasp.
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Nobody moved until the sound of the guards' boots had died away down the corridor.Then Tristan let out a long, shaky breath and slid down the wall until he was sitting on the stone with his knees drawn up."Bait," he said. "She cut the line and she waited for you to come down and spend yourself heating it, weakening yourself." He laughed, a thin, unhappy sound. "And I aided her plan by handing you the cable.""You didn't hand me anything," I said. "I asked for it.""That's no better, is it?""Enough." Cassian's voice was firm, and both of us stopped.He had not let go of my hand. In the dim light, with the dried blood on his cheek and the cut over his eyebrow reopened, he looked like a man holding himself upright by will alone."We aren't doing this in a service tunnel at three in the morning. Tristan, check the east section, every inch. Then afterward, get some rest. Aurora, you're coming with me," he said, lifting my hands in an attempt to carry me."I can walk," I said."You can tr
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"Cassian?"My voice went down the black service corridor and did not return.No answer. No footsteps. Only the faint, patient drip of water from a pipe somewhere ahead, and the sound of my own breathing, quick and shallow.I put a hand on the wall and pushed, and the world tilted and steadied itself."Don't," Tristan said, gripping my elbow. "You've gone down twice tonight.""Then help me up and be quiet."He hauled me to my feet and snapped on the torch from his belt. A narrow yellow beam cut the dark. The service corridor ran straight and low, its ceiling crowded with pipes and bundled cable, a dozen black conduits snaking along the rock like the roots of something buried.I could feel the cold in the walls. It was a different cold from the vault's, a hungry, creeping one, as if the mountain were drawing breath through its teeth."This feeds the east wall," Tristan whispered, sweeping the beam along the cable runs. "Every line in here leads to the long section. If someone's been in
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Tristan was waiting at the gate with his clipboard crushed against his chest.Wariness was written all over his face. He noticed us the moment we came into view.His eyes scanned our faces, the snow caked on our boots, the blood frozen black down the front of my armor, and he did not say a word.The doors ground shut behind us. The panel went green. Somewhere out in the storm, the wind dragged a long, thin howl across the open ground, and I found myself counting the seconds until it stopped."Dorr?" he said at last. "Where is he?""Dead," Cassian said. "The hounds took what was left, but it wasn't them that dealt the killing blow. Someone slit his throat first."Tristan blinked. His face went pale as the image formed in his mind."I was the one who put him on the night pours. I vouched for him. I told Aurora he was the steadiest man on the crew.""He might have been," Cassian said, not unkindly. "That's why they picked him."He turned to the two volunteers, the schoolteacher and the t
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