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“Shelly,” Ra said gently as he pushed her back a little so he could look at her face. “I know you want to speak with your parents, but tonight, all I can offer is for you to see them from afar. There will be too many questions that we can’t answer right now. We need one of the heads of the academies to talk to them with us. Do you understand?”
She nodded even as tears streamed down her face. “I do. I get it. I just miss them.”
“I know you do, Mery, and I would give you this if we weren’t on a deadline.”
Her eyes met his, and he saw mixed emotions there: fear, desire, insecurity, and hesitancy. For a moment, he even felt them through their shared soul. He didn’t blame her. She’d been thrown into this against her will, and it wasn’t fair to her.
“I’m sorry,” he said again because he
