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Sam, no!_ Edilio snapped.Sam missed a step, then stopped. He looked at Edilio, puzzled.__e__e scattered. And we can__ risk you. You die and the light dies with you.___re you out of your mind? You think I__ going to let Drake come in here and take Diana?___ot you, Sam. Dekka, yes. Orc, yes. He__ out there, too. And send Jack as well. Anyone but you.__am looked like he__ been punched. Like someone had knocked the wind out of him. He blinked and started to say something and stopped.__ou aren__ replaceable, Sam. Figure it out, okay? It__ going dark and you make light. So this isn__ going to be your battle. Not now. It__ on the rest of us to step up.

Sam. Brianna is dead.__e just stared at her. Then, in a soft, almost childlike voice, he said, __reeze?___he stopped Gaia. It looked like Brianna almost killed her. The second time she . . . But this time . . .__here were tears in Sam__ eyes. __y God. How is Dekka?___ike you__ expect. Destroyed. Roger__ dead, too, so Edilio . . . It__ been really bad, Sam. Really bad. It__ like we__e in a war.___e are.

There's a lot youdon't know, Sam. There's a lot I don't tell you. I know who I am. I know what I do, and what I am to this place.I know what I am to you, and how much you depend on me.You may be the symbol, and you may be the one everyone turns to when something goes bad, and you're the big badass, but I'm the guy doing the day-in, day-out work of running things. So I don't make this about me.

It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find Astrid, repeat that to her, word for word, the part about how it takes you a while. Then remember her exact reaction and tell me.

Edilio is in hiding,_ Astrid snapped. __dilio has to worry about being kicked out of the country. Our Edilio.___e__ got a volunteer lawyer___ut Astrid wasn__ done. __hey should be putting up statues to Edilio. They should be naming schools after that boy__o, no, I__ not going to call him a boy. If he__ not a man, then I__l never meet one.__ana nodded approvingly, obviously enjoying and sharing in Astrid__ outrage.

When she came back down, Sam and Astrid had arrived.Sam hugged Dekka, and the two of them stayed that way for a long time, saying nothing. Both had loved Brianna.To Edilio, Sam said, ____ so sorry, man. I wish I__ . . . You know what I wish.__dilio fought back a fresh rush of tears, nodded, waited until he was sure he could speak, and said, ____ glad you__e back, boss.