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I had a feeling this would happen.
What was the point of gathering talented people and strategizing if it all unraveled like this?
I couldn't see the plan unfolding as expected, but strangely, I felt a calm sense of inevitability. In the back of my mind, I had been bracing for something like this to happen.
"You said that things wouldn't go south," I grumbled.
"I've got no excuse," Carzakh murmured, his voice subdued.
I hadn't anticipated that response. It didn't seem to suit him at all.
"It can't be helped. Reinforcements will arrive soon. We just need to hold out until then."
I spoke loudly enough for Juan to hear, though it was a bluff. I hadn't informed Junian that I had left. This outing had been too abrupt for that.
As I had been resting in the infirmary of the instructors' building, the atmosphere there seemed to press down on me, and my focus had zeroed in on Juan's room.
Why hasn't this bastard returned? I had wondered.
He'd been wandering around late into the night. By 11 p.m., his room had still been empty. Puzzled, I had slipped out of the infirmary and started searching. That's how I had ended up ...
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