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Tris thought Keter was just joking to try to calm her down… until he took everything from her except her clothes.
“What is this?” Keter asked, holding up the seeds of the Moonlight Apple.
“Those are Moonlight Apple seeds. They grow well even in barren environments. They could save this fog-covered world…?” Tris answered seriously.
Crunch, crack.
“They’re good.”
“Huh?”
“I was getting hungry anyway. Thanks.”
“You… You didn’t just eat them, right?”
“Were you hungry, too?”
“Th-those were all the seeds I brought…”
Tris collapsed to the ground, tears streaming down her face. Keter looked at her like she was the strange one.
“You’re crying over a few seeds?”
“They’re not just any seeds!”
“Yeah, I know. But there are plenty in the city, right?” Keter said, pointing down toward Teresa, the city below.
Because of that, Tris was reminded of all the knights and people who had sacrificed themselves for her. Her tears flowed even harder.
“Everyone sacrificed themselves to get those seeds…!”
“Alright, alright. Take that guy and go back to the city.”
To Tris, telling her to go back to the city was the same as telling her to die. Only then did she realize that she had been toyed with by a monster-human.
“You monster! You were playing with me!” she yelled.
“What are you...
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