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“He wanted to say all these things and more. Much more. But as Allie bent close and he struggled to form the words, all that came out, a whisper amid the din of boots and shouts, was that today was his birthday.

He shouldn’t have left. He should have been there. He hadn’t been there for Cam, either. Death preceded him in all the places he couldn’t be. He had done the same to his mother. And now the end was coming for them all.

We medicate everyone. It’s in the water.

Troy put to “sleep” for 160 years. Comes back as his OG self, Donald. Trying to remember where he is and what exactly he built.

Mission clutched his knife and thought of how he should’ve been cut out of her and discarded. But past a certain date, and one life was traded for another. Such was the pact. Born behind bars, Mission had been allowed free while his mother had been sent outside to clean.