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Lukas, remember to always rein it in.” My parents, and the Council knew what can happen with my energy if I let myself lose control. For that reason I always keep myself in check, never allowing myself to fall prey to the emotions when they rise. I must avoid at all costs, the cost for losing control is too high, for all of us.
    The Head Councilman's request should cause my blood to boil, but it has the opposite effect. Holding Lucy's writing in my hand, I smile. Burning the evidence of her possible link to the prophecy keeps her safe. Burning the evidence of her link to the prophecy keeps Head Councilman in control, as always. Nothing changes.
    Except.
    Except it's clear Lucy does have a connection to The Light in a way the Council doesn't want to acknowledge. Once again, I question whether they truly believe in The Light. Maybe that's a strange thing to say, but as I look around the room, knowing that I don't even know what I believe -- it's clear there's only one believer in this room.
    Integrity.
    He's in the corner, still in his chair, but now his eyes look sad, the spark that is sometimes present is gone. Now he looks like the symbol of a religion that was very different before the prophecy was answered. Before I was born.
    Part of me wants Integrity to speak up. To defend what he believes. To defend Lucy. I know I can't be the one to convince them of Lucy's importance or explain that she has the same Light as me, but that it just hasn't been tapped into yet.
    To do so I'd be turning the girl I love into a machine. I'd be turning her into me.
    Thankfully, Integrity says nothing.
    I lift my right hand, blazing with light. With narrowed eyes I focus on a heat so powerful it could consume them all. I target my anger toward Lucy having to run and me having to stay. My hand fills with those emotions and when the temperature rises to a combustible flame, the room gasps.
    This is a part of my power I've been taught to hide. But now, with all eyes watching Head Councilman nods, dictating my move. He knows I will do as he says, my stake in this Refuge is as complicated as his. However, I'd like to believe mine is pure, but now I feel hostility pressing me forward.
    Fueled with a fire I don't completely understand, a trail blazed within me. Head Councilman doesn't realize, but his request has reminded me of my own strength. A red flame rises above my hand and I place the test in my palm and watch as it disintegrates.
    I watch as Lucy becomes free of The Light, forever.

 
    CHAPTER THREE
     
    Lucy
     
    "Who are you?" A man holding a gun asks, not lowering it from my face. A group of people are with him, a barricade of individuals all carrying handguns block Timid and I from moving any further along the path.
    "I'm Lucy. My friend and I have been traveling all night." My arm reaches out, pulling Timid close to me. The moment my light was extinguished the night air became jarringly cold.
    "Where are you from? Who's with you?" The gun-holding man asks, not hesitating for a moment to find out who we are.
    "We're from The Light and we're alone. We're looking for Charlie."
    The man steps back, looking us over from head to toe. It's easy to see that we're dressed for the indoors, in flimsy gowns, unarmed. Even our feet, covered in simple moccasin slippers, reveal how out of our element we are. We surely didn't think out our escape very thoroughly. Not that we had time.
    "Lower your guns, these girls are coming with me," the man tells the group surrounding us. Immediately, they listen.
    Not wanting to travel this far, only to end up in the wrong persons hands, I ask, "Do you know who Charlie is? He said to find him at Safe House Four ."
    "You will speak when asked to speak."
    With those simple words I realize I'm not going to receive the friendly greeting I anticipated. I assumed with naiveté that when I walked to the Safe House someone would greet us with open arms.
    I was hoping to walk here, find Charlie and his parents, then