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Chapter 33: The Weight of a Question

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"You're staring at her again," Kian said.

Joy startled slightly, pulled from the direction of her own gaze — across the ration line, where Adaeze sat alone, arm still bound in its splint, picking at a small tray of food with her uninjured hand.

"I'm not staring," Joy said. "I'm watching."

"Those look the same from where I'm standing."

"They're not." Joy turned back to her own tray, though her appetite had wandered off somewhere in the last hour and hadn't returned. "Staring is suspicion without
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