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"Between treating Locksley and co here to work on the burn patients, you have barely had an hour to yourself," Braxtyn said "Go to your lord and rest I know Cyprien pines for you"
"Michael is busy rids for Nick and Gabriel" Alex saw the look in the other woht, you talked ood liar, Alex decided as she returned to the upstairs room she had appropriated to serve as a lab Ever since she’d seen the results of Robin’s first blood tests after the transplant, she’d been wide-awake
If Robin could be changed back to human, then it had to be possible to do the same for every other Darkyn
In the lab, Alex reviewed the scans of Robin’s abdo perfectly, and the latest CBC still showed no trace of the Kyn pathogen
Alex glanced at the refrigeration unit where she’d stored the other blood samples she’d taken She still had two vials of blood she’d drawn fro him the radiation treatment, and as they were as lethal as Beatrice’s tears, they needed to be destroyed
She put on three pairs of latex gloves before she reht The blood looked almost black now
"It’s off to Geoffrey’s furnace with you two" She placed the the short walk froerator to the lab table, both vials had turned bright red
"That’s weird" She checked the seals on the tubes, which were intact "You responding to erous, but she’d worked with hazardous materials countless times It wouldn’t hurt to draw out a drop of the blood and have a look at it under the scope No one would ever know she had
She took all the necessary precautions to protect herself and contain the samples before she made a slide Geoff had obtained one of the best scopes on the enic cells and what they were doing
"You look just like Jema Shaw’s blood," she murmured, and then went still Jema, the only female turned by the Kyn who had not been an orphan, had had a very unusual blood profile before and after her change to Kyn Alex had studied it for months, but as it matched no one else’s she had mentally filed it away as an anomaly
Jema wasn’t the odd one out She was the key
Alex backed away fro at it for several en suddenly began to fall into place, like puzzle pieces that had decided on their own to quit waiting for her to fit the picture And then it was all so simple The radiation treatment hadn’t turned Robin human Neither had Jayr’s bone marrow
Beatrice’s tears, and the fact that he had drank them, had been the reason for his reen had attacked, then coht there, under the scope
A laugh escaped Alex, and she slapped a hand over her mouth to smother the sound "It can’t be that siht She stayed in the lab and performed a fewdown about the results
Every test she ran was positive
She could run a hundred simulations, but she knew the results would always be the same The probleh blood to make one treatment, and she wouldn’t be able to test it on anyone
She held up the syringe and stared at it Here was the answer All she had to do was roll up her sleeve, shove the needle into her arain
"Alexandra" Phillipe burst into the rooht away"
He startled her so e in her hand "What is it?" She shoved the syringe into her coat pocket "Robin?"
The seneschal shook his head "It is the mortal woman, Chris She has collapsed"
Alex relaxed a little "Exhaustion, probably She hasn’t slept for days" She picked up her medical case "Come on, I’ll have a look"
"It is not that," Phillipe said as he accompanied her out into the hall "She vo"
"What?" Alex stopped in her tracks "Her scent is what?"
"It is changing, Alex," he said, his voice low and tight "As she is Changing to Kyn"
Chris felt cool hands on her face and opened her eyes to see the Kyn doctor standing over her "What happened?"
"Well, for one thing, you puked all over the place Then you fainted" Alexandra Keller smiled absently as she picked up Chris’s wrist and pressed two fingers against it "Your blood pressure isme very unhappy, too"