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“We don’t go back,” she said. “Even if we have to dig through rock with our nails.”

Then Liera turned to look at him, and Corin saw what he hadn’t noticed in the tunnel: a brand on her collarbone. The same symbol burned into his own shoulder. tunnel escape fates entwined

They hadn’t been strangers. They had been tried in the same court, on the same day, for the same crime—a crime neither had committed. But the warden had separated them before they could speak. Three years, and they had never known each other’s names. “We don’t go back,” she said

But tunnels have a way of stripping lies away. When you have breathed the same scarce air, when your shoulders have pressed together in the dark while the mountain tried to crush you both, there is no room left for the stories they told you to hate by. They walked east, toward a port city that never asked for papers. Behind them, the prison sat quiet—still believing two enemies had dug separate holes and died in the rubble. They hadn’t been strangers

But tonight was different. Tonight, a second set of hands joined his.

Survival would take more than running. It would take trust—the hardest thing for two people who had been taught to see the other as the reason for their ruin.