[60] Betrayal

Faye stared at the list in horror with laboured breathing. Among the many names shown in the main hall was hers, written in purple along with all the others chosen for the mission assigned by Luen. Faye knew she couldn't do it; there was no way she was going to. She didn't have any skill, or power, or field. She was just a newcomer.

She looked around, finding Ethan and Leith in the front, conversing with distraught faces between themselves, and then they turned, and she knew they were both looking for her. She'd decided then that she did not want to be found just yet. She needed a moment to run -to process this- and to breathe... but she was also very angry and afraid. She ran out of the hall, and straight down to the admin's office, where she burst through the door.

"I can't go!" She yelled.