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“She’s with the supreme leader right now,” the girl with the flowing hair said. “We suggest you take a seat and he’ll be right with you once he’s… finished.”
It was the first and only time I noticed a hint of hesitancy in her tone.
She blinked as if coming awake and then immediately returned to her glassy-eyed expression.
It was all an act, I realized.
Neither of them wanted to be here anymore than I did.
I stepped toward her, and she took a step back.
“I’m not here to hurt you,” I said, raising my hands. “I’m here for the girl. That’s all.”
“The supreme leader will be available shortly—”
I held both her feminine hands in mine.
She was shaking like a leaf.
“Listen to me,” I said. “I know a lot of bad things have happened to you. Help me, and you’ll be able to escape.”
The girl looked at me.
Her eyes were bloodshot and filling rapidly with tears.
“This… This isn’t a test?” she said.
“A test? No. I just need to find Agatha. And I need to find her now.”
The girl’s attention flickered back and forth between my eyes.
“You care for her.”
“With all my heart.”
It was what the girl needed to hear.
She smiled and wiped the tears from her eyes.
“I haven’t heard anything like that in a very long time.”
The other girl placed a hand on her arm.
“Jixa, don’t,” she said. “This won’t reflect well on you if you help him.”
The friend’s words of advice had an effect on Jixa.
I placed a hand on her other arm.
“Please. Help me.”
Jixa was torn between the two of us.
I could understand her friend’s concern.
I could only imagine the ordeals they’d been put through.
They likely hadn’t received a single kernel of kindness in a very long time.
