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Chapter Twenty-One
"How do you get to the Pointthe confluencethe fastest way?" Mariah asked Will Shepherd. Not that she wanted to arrive there quickly to hurry things along; just the opposite. Somehow, she had to get to Will, convince him to call off this tragedy in the making.
She inhaled deeply, not knowing what to do. She'd always been good at winging it in difficult negotiations as a unit production manager.
But she'd never been faced with a situation in which the outcome would be so criticalliterally life or death.
Thorn's.
"The nearest way to the Point is over the Isthmus toward the West Ravelin," Will replied. "The same way you entered. But the duel will not be suitable for a woman to"
"Show me, please. I just want to see where it will be." She glanced toward the casemate door. She heard nothing, saw nothing. Good. If she moved quickly, Thorn wouldn't see her talking to the young man.
And so what if he did? It was a free country. Or would be.

 
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