““Stop it, you two.” Ava looks nervous. “What if it’s the Red Hand?” Tiran brushes his tangled hair from his eyes. “Don’t get your frysuit in a twist. The Hand’s hundreds of klicks south. Republic wouldn’t let anyone in our airspace.” “Like that means pissall,” I mutter. “They own the skies,” he replies like he’s a Praetor. “They don’t even own their own cities,” I say, remembering the bombings in Agea.””
![“Ava’s Mum : – We are not like them, Ava. […] We have to be ready to fight, and when the enemy gets you, one day, you show them what I taught you. When they lock you in the darkness, become an arsonist. When they put you under house arrest, or defile your name in public, or make you live beneath…” quote by Stephanie Oakes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/394/stephanie-oakes-41902_best-friend_ava-s-mum-we-are-not-like-them-ava-we-ha_2646462.jpg)
