"But But why there?" Rin asked through hyperventilating breaths. "You know where it is, Fal. You saved from there. Why do you need to go back?"
"You know the place far better than I do," Fal said, "If we go there, and there's any clue to be found as to where Clan Pren has moved onto after that raid, you're the one that's going to be most likely to find it. We need a guide, Rin, and you're the only one we've got."
We may have been from different species but I was fast learning that the look of devastation was the sa no matter what planet you were born on. Rin's head was hung low, her breaths ca in slow shaky sobs, and she seed to have lost all of her energy.
But slowly. With each of those shaky breaths. It was as if a complete transformation was taking place.
She was becoming stronger with each inhale, blowing out her worries with every exhale.
"Fine," she said after a few monts, her voice cold and hard, "Let's get this over with."
We couldn't just leave the bar out of the front entrance the way we ca in, of course. We'd already been attacked once out there and there was nothing to say that another potential assassin hadn't been called to take the first one's post when they had failed their job. Instead, Rin led us out through the back of the bar into a dingy little alleyway.
For such a high tech ga building it surprised how many little hideaways and cuts to different locations there were. It was as if soone had taken an entire city, with all its little rat runs and alternate routes, and had simply shoved it into an entire building. I'd been expecting elevators and robotic guides, not winding staircases into the depths of the beast.
It was a wonder that no one ever got lost in places like this.
I tried to keep the childish grin off my face at BB's taunting. It wouldn't do to start cackling over a joke my AI had told when we were on such a serious mission. Akash and Pax were in danger, and if we didn't get to them there probably wouldn't be a Prespian City to make silly jokes about.
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