Jolie pov She nods and heads back toward the medical bay, moving with less mechanical precision than before. Still learning, still healing, but trying. “You're good with her." Ryder appears beside me. "Patient and honest at the same time.""She reminds me of me." I watch Celeste coordinate with medical staff. "Lost, broken, convinced she's worthless. Someone needs to tell her she's not. Might as well be someone who understands.""You're not worthless." He says it firmly. "Never were, your father was wrong.""I know." And I do know. "Took me a while to believe it, but I know now. I'm not the runt everyone said I was. I'm the Moonfire Luna. And I'm about to walk into a Council facility and dare them to try capturing me.""That's the confidence I like to see." He grins. "Terrifying, but I like it.""Ready?" Luna appears with the extraction team. Ryder, Gio, Phoenix, and eight rogues who volunteered for infiltration duty."Ready." I check my weapons one last time. "Let's go get our pack
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