One thing was abundantly clear in all of this, especially after Dakota's visit. He had no intentions of killing a traitor, and any dangers that might have been presented were of an entirely different variety, but it was obvious that she was better suited to defend her hypotheses than her own body.
And if she had unearthed this reasoning of a need to defend herself, she knew that she couldn't be the only one.
She waited on the training fields with a pocket moleskin book and pencil in hand, working her way through a formula as if it were a crossword puzzle. She'd left a note under Lucky's door requesting his presence, but if he had better things to do than weapons training (and what Life hunter didn't), she would at least have something to occupy her time.
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