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Chapter 7: Eleven Seconds

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POV: Lyra

Nobody moved.

That is what I remember most about that moment. It was the way the room just stopped. Not dramatically, the way it does in movies. It stopped the way a held breath stops, complete and total.

Luna was still pointing at me.

She had no idea.

That is the thing about children. They don't know what they are doing when they tell the truth. They just tell it the way you'd hand someone a glass of water.

She had no idea she had just handed Xavier a grenade.

His eyes were on me. St
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