“Because you’d have destroyed the fleet!” Jay’s voice cracked. “You said if I didn’t help you disappear, you’d broadcast every admiral’s secret to the entire galaxy.”
“I disabled the neutralizer an hour ago,” she said. “The block is gone, Jay. Not just mine. Yours.”
He didn’t wait for an answer. He ran.
“What happens now?” he whispered.
“I could have told the court,” she continued, stepping closer. “But I offered you a deal. Three years of my silence, locked away in my own mind, if you’d build this prison for me. A place where no one else could hear my thoughts. You agreed.” 41 unblocked
“Now,” she said, “we both walk out of here. And you tell the truth.”
“You, Jay.” She rose slowly, fluidly, like a marionette whose strings were finally being cut. “You’re the one who put me here. Because I saw the truth in your head—the accident. The little girl in the crosswalk. You weren’t drunk. You just weren’t looking.” “Because you’d have destroyed the fleet
She reached out and gently pressed the panic button herself.