Announced Dead
She had still said yes, and after packing light, plus with food and water, they'd disappeared.
Something in my gut didn't feel right about the story, like there was more to it, but at the time I'd just been happy Celia had wanted to be reunited with her mother.
And then the distressed signal had pinged to my watch.
Celia was a genius; she had managed to re-wire my watch to only send and receive approved messages, such as emergency ones.
In this voice message, she had been sobbing, saying that Destry had lied to her, and was selling her to the Market. I could hear her struggling, and a fleshy sound as she suddenly went quiet, the call ending shortly.
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