Five's POV"She seems nice," Seven muttered.I remained quiet, just watched Five fifty's retreating back.She seemed nice—on the surface.But I didn't know what was underneath, so I couldn't trust it."I don't trust her," I confessed, my voice barely audible.But Seven caught it anyway."I see why," she hummed, turning back to face the weed. "After Elijah..."She trailed off, as though saying his name was some kind of taboo.I looked at her profile—the set of her jaw, the careful way she kept her eyes on the garden bed, the slight tension around her mouth that appeared whenever something sat unspoken between us.The guilt arrived quietly, the way it always did.Seven didn't know.She knew about Elijah. She knew about the escape plan, about the council chamber, about the book. But she didn't know I had powers I couldn't explain and that the facility had sent girls who might be watching me.She didn't know the facility was hunting me specifically—not as a runaway, not as a girl who had
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