Chapter 3: A Stick Does Not Stand

Cinder doesn't chew the candy. One piece, in a world that has handed him nothing else, and he holds it on his tongue because he can't tell when there will be another. That quiet restraint says more about him than almost anything he says out loud here — and he deliberately says very little. He never once answers the question about why he isn't scared. If someone asked you that, point blank, would you answer honestly?
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