I am Subversive - A Fantasy Novel

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Plague - 13

Subversive is on indefinite hiatus - I don't have the readership I need to justify the amount of work I'm putting into this. For those of you that have been reading, I'm sorry.

Suralee to Jaled

I hope you get this. I cannot say how it's been gotten out. You cannot reply to me directly. Forgive me, but I have to protect those putting their lives on the line to get this released.

I'm all right. I'm in jail, still, but I'm all right. I'm in the section reserved for high-status prisoners. If anything, the food's better here than I've been getting on the ship.

-pause-

I miss you. There are so many things I want to say, need to say, and I don't even know where to begin. There's so many things I should tell you, so many things about what I've seen. But I can't seem to think of it right now, and I won't have time to record anything else.

I can't believe they're willing to let this get out. And I'm afraid it's a trap, though I don't think it is. But if it is, I have to be careful about that, too. Some of what I've seen would identify our agents.

If this is a trap, shame on you. This is a private message between a woman and her husband. So there. And I'm powerless right now, too.

It's odd. They really haven't interrogated me or anything. It's like they're waiting for something. I wish I knew what it was. Someone might be coming, but I don't know who. They're not really talking to me.

I think I intimidate some of the guards. Family members that do things wrong don't usually get put in prison. We handle that sort of thing in-house.

Maybe they're just trying to figure out what to do with me in the first place. It's not really a situation that's come up before.

I have no family. I don't think I'd realized it quite so much before. But now? If I had a Family, I would have been sent to them. I wouldn't be left here. It's hard to really think about. I've always had a Family, even when I hated them.

Someone's coming. I have to cut this short. But remember, Jaled – I love you. That hasn't changed, and it's not going to.

-muffled noises-

No. You can't do that. I still have rights.

Do the Families know about this?

Stop!

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