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“Just stop talking and go away,” Aidan snapped, stopping and spinning around to face Max. “I’m not a charity case, and I don’t need your pity. You can stop pretending like you care to hang around me when we both know that’s not true. No one wants to be around me, so just stop.”

“I’m sorry,” Max whispered, leaning back against the wall and forcing himself to breathe in and out slowly as Aidan loosened his grip and stepped back. “I . . . I didn’t mean to freak out like that.” It’s not normally that bad.

“You mean we are taking it up today? Why did you have me acting like an idiot with that stupid blindfold on?”

“First off, you act like an idiot anyway.”

“You’ve been avoiding me,” Max said, taking a step toward him as he swept his gaze over the workbench.
“Have I?” Aidan said, frowning as he looked intently at whatever he was working on.
Max nodded. “Yes, yes you have.”

“That sounds boring as a black hole, and I just don’t do boring.”
“First, if you were near its gravitational pull, you wouldn’t think a black hole was boring. Second, is this going to become a regular thing with you?”

All the Novans had blue lines running all over their skin; it was almost as if their veins were glowing. But Max wasn’t a biologist, so for all he knew that could have been exactly what was happening to them. From what he did know, most of the scientist believed it was caused by a plant the Novans ate, called Echo root.

Aiden is a terror to everyone else but Max can just see right past his act lol

Re-reading this series to my sisters!

oh goodness.

Well... we'll see if things get better and if some things are explained better.

This is giving me Skyward vibes XD

Aiden... I love you so much but other times I just want to bang your head against the wall to knock some sense into you XD

Kozlov is not on my good side right now...

I really want to give Aiden a big hug (he desperately needs that), but he'd probably like me even less than he likes everyone else if I did that XD

“To me, He’s a personal God,” Max finally said, searching for the right words to continue. “I mean, He invented time, so I’m pretty sure he has plenty of it.”

(Page 195).

Yesss Max, that's it!

Oooh, we've got a bit of a mystery going on here...

I'm so enjoying the relationship between Aiden and Max so far XD Aiden is like, a favorite character already!

The sarcasm level is through the roof and I am just so happy right now XD Well done sarcasm is amazing. That's part of the reason I wanted to read this book.

Max was just about to wonder if he was being paranoid when he heard a commotion coming from down the corridor ahead of them, yet Max still couldn’t tell what was going on. If he’d been by himself, he might have charged ahead, but it wasn’t only his life on the line, and he wasn’t going to risk Aidan’s safety like that.

That was about childish Cadets, other than you guys, breaking something they shouldn’t have,” Aidan said, smirking at Harris. “I know you’ll all be heartbroken, but I’ve got to go and fix it.”
“It can’t wait?” Max asked, his shoulders slumping a bit.

Before he could think about it anymore, the stripes on Max’s shirt flickered on and turned green. He glanced over at Harris and instantly realized his stripes had turned orange. It was obvious from Harris’ face that he’d noticed too.
“This is awkward,” Harris said.