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    Ascendant,” Vang replied deliberately like he was speaking to a small child. “And you have the Perception Dome-ni.”


    this was far more important––securing the willing cooperation of the Emperor’s Heir. I felt my earlier victory of negotiation crumble to ash, knowing the bastard had been playing me from the very beginning.


    You don’t know what you are doing. You don’t understand what going back would mean for you. Let me do this for you. Let me go in your stead.


    This was why he had been willing to give himself up. He knew these people better than me. He knew what they were capable of, and had been willing to give his life to prevent exactly this sort of thing from happening. And I had just bumbled right into it, thinking I knew better than he did.


    real home, to my real family, surged to a frightening height inside of me. My entire essence longed for the familiarity of what I’d always known and the support of those who truly cared about me.