
Forty-Three
I wake up slowly in a white room. The air is mine. I look around. Where's Sabine, if she enters the room she would die in minutes. I let out a breath. Let's hope the rest of them know the plan. I feel pain. I look down and realize I'm bleeding. There's blood. What happened? Must've been where I fell.
"You're awake good." Thrawn enters the room.
"How can you breathe?" I ask.
"Your concern is touching." He says.
"If I'm going to kill you, I'd rather you die from me not the air." I say.
"Hmm, by the looks of it." I have the upper hand." He says.
"Well, we may surprise you." I say.
"Oh, I have no doubt you'll defy convention, but you may have overestimated yourself." He says.
"How so?" I raise an eyebrow.
I turn. They drop Sabine. I see her through the window.
"Are you okay?" I call.
"Never better." She says.
"If you kill us, your advantage would be drained." I say.
"Who said anything about killing?" He raises an eyebrow.
I smell something. I look up and I see oxygen. Oxygen here is toxic. Oh no... that is not good. I fall to my knees. I gasp for air, but oxygen fills my lungs. It's like poison. I spit out blood. My lungs were burning.
"Ezra!" Sabine yells.
My vision starts getting blurry.
"Leave him alone!" Sabine yells.
"Your concerns mean nothing to me." He says.
I spit out blood on his clothes. The least I can do to hurt him is to stain his clothing. Blood spills from my nose and mouth. If this is Thrawn's plan to kill me, yeah, he's doing a good job of it. I fall lower to the ground. I feel like I'm paralyzed. I try to stand up but Thrawn pins me to the ground.
"Never.... *gasp* thought *wheeze* you'd... get your hands dirty." I hiss.
The vents close. The oxygen starts fading. I gasp in the air.
"My hands are never dirty." He stands up.
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