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"I-I-I" I'm near tears. I can barely talk, even though I don't know why Samantha cares. "I have to be in the elite squad," I say quietly. Samantha is silent. "I have to escape," I go on. "I need to see Adena." I run from my dorm, my feet pounding on the floor. I realize the next class has started. I try to be quieter. I don't care about skipping class, especially this one. It's controlling powers, which I have no hope of doing. All the other kids make fun of me and I'm failing it. As I run, I think about the war. I'm not that scared anymore, but I still feel as if I must not fight in it. Then I realize it: I could never kill a Hex. It's not the killing, I could stand that, I almost think I have killed someone before, but don't remember anything else. Maybe it just comes from being named Hades. It's the loyalty. Strangely, I feel more to this strange world I know nothing about than to my own nation, my own friends. I can never tell Adena this though, and having attempted escape 3 times, she's my only hope.

I rush down the stairs, headed to her dorm. My fingers touch the metal banister and I feel a shock. "Static," I think. Then it hits me: there is no static in the mage nation. It has been blocked ever since the war started. I've been in the mage nation all my life. That leaves me with two questions: How do I know about static? And why is it here?