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thought about it, and it was okay for me to cheat?”
    “For you, for me, for Bess,” Felicia said. “It’s impossible to play fair when the entire game is rigged. And it’s ridiculous to expect people to follow rules in matters of life and death, don’t you agree, Kai? This race today, it was a matter of life and death for Bess. So she cheated. She cheated Pen, and apparently, she cheated you, too. And I, for one, cannot blame her for it.”
    “Good for you,” Kai grumbled. “You’re not the one stuck here.”
    “No,” Felicia said. “But neither are you. I have a proposition. I am looking for someone like you. Actually, I’m looking for a few someones. People who are young and smart and not afraid to break a few rules to get what’s been stolen from all of us.”
    Kai stared at her in wonder. Was she saying what he thought? “I promise,” he said quickly, before she changed her mind. “I’m actually a great mechanic. The machine would have worked if Bess hadn’t sabotaged me.”
    Felicia chuckled. “I’m sure it would have. After all, Pen keeps you around for a reason. So are you in?”
    He hesitated. What was the point of those promises he’d just made in his unsent letter to Elliot if he didn’t believe them? “Are you offering me a job or another bond?”
    Her smile grew as large as her husband’s. “I’m offering you a chance at the future you’ve always desired. Tell me, Kai. You say you’re good at fixing boats. Have you ever thought about living on one? Of finding out what lies beyond these islands, once and for all?”
    Beyond the islands, beyond the Luddites, beyond everything he ever knew?

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    Kai looked down at the letter he was writing to Elliot. He crumpled it up in his hands and dropped it to the floor.
    “Yes. I’m ready to leave now,” he said, and followed Felicia into a radiant new world.