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Escaping the Underground
As she had warned, we received what was meant to be a soul-stirring pep talk from our very own Glorious Leader. The Deltas ate it up, the Alphas looked bored, the Betas…
They were scared.
Small wonder, given that they were going into battle with an inexperienced, untried leader. I had confidence in the former Twenty, now Captain Beta. He wasn’t large, physically. He didn’t have that charismatic look about him, he wasn’t handsome, or even particularly well-spoken.
Then you looked into his eyes… they were everywhere, taking in everything, and constantly calculating odds. I had a suspicion that he was the son of a former officer from before the crash. I made a mental note to find out. If I could get things running again, once I had the power to do so, I was going to find all the Undergro
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