Complete: in the morning , they 'll start receiving small rations of food and water and simply wait to recover . or die . my mind wanders to the stash of stolen money that tess and i have hidden . twenty-five hundred notes . enough to feed us for months ... but not enough to buy my family vials of plague medicine . the minutes drag on . i tuck my slingshot away and play a few rounds of rock , paper , scissors with
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