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He came into the cave that contained the enemy pack of feral and instantly felt the injury to the Boy With prie, to the alien pack

The Dog wagged his tail That was very good He looked up at the Dead One He was a fierce Alpha, the Dog would wait for his signal

When it ca his tail and shook htly, I couldn’t believe et any weirder but then Clyde asked, "What assistance do you require, Master?"

And my mind screamed Jade, help Jade But he couldn’t I could raise a thousand zombies but she was soh "Where is the one that would dispatch the young women?"

I pointed to the bars where Skinny-S his chest where I’d jaun Clyde

He wore his old-fashioned, three piece suit like a unifor chain for his watch winking softly under the LED’s that had automatically pulsed on as darkness descended

One of the Graysheets came forward and Gramps said, "Can’t take them all, Caleb!"

He had the puppy held on two of the Graysheets while a third lay bleeding out on the mat where I had practiced a thousand times But that left Skinny-S and ready in one hand and a sot a shot off as Clyde ca theit as it entered

I ran forward as Gramps yelled, "Stay put, Caleb"

I wasn’t rabbed a fistful of the back of Clyde’s suit and h him

That’s when I felt it

Tiff had barreled intoour coe that caused hiun, shells expended He spun back, jabbing the knife into Clyde’s chest cavity

Clyde grunted softly as I poured e as it happened Clyde encircled the agent’s windpipe with his hand, lifting hients neck and squeezed I could hear the vertebrae grind against one another in a futile atte to the pressure, they were crushed to dust inside the colu a practical ent, he used hirotesquely When Skinny-Sent instead Tiff and I moved with him, behind hiun that Skinny held and there was a sharp crack as it s down on the floor

Clyde threicked punch and Skinny-Smoker deflected it sent’s eyes followedas I don’t kill you, I’ at ainst ht away and he should have buckled under the weight of the onslaught, his nasty s him weak

He was not, he did not

Skinny-S hiether in an ungainly pile

I faced Skinny-Smoker just as Onyx launched hi shredded Onyx sunk his teeth into his bare flesh and Skinny howled in pain

But mainly frustration In a smooth move, he landed his opposite fist on Onyx’s head and Onyx slid down to the floor Hurt

He hurt ether and adrenaline and death got tangled together in a body nu off of Tiff and I looked at Skinny-Sed The tension of the day like an oil slick on fire, the flae with one of his own and we grappled Our sizes were siirlfriend in jeopardy as aelse

Clyde pulled him off of me and tossed him by the seat of his pants into the one lass the size of a ruler, stabbing hi out of his back

Slick with blood and other things

His mouth opened in an "O" of surprise He fell backwards, tuh in reverse, gutting hiain His hands wrapped around it but he died as atched

The Telekinetic agent used the distraction of his fallen comrade to throw the puppy across the room John, too tired to keep a hold on both the Null and the Telekinetic, looked atof which, Clyde faced the two agents, trying to protect me from them as Grauy who had al pretty well now as he began to try and beat the snot out of Gramps

I wanted to protect hio, sliding into the dead agent with the glass poking out of his chest

I was betting he was as good of a fighter dead as alive

His eyes sprung open finding lass out of his chest and launching it like a torpedo at the Telekinetic

See how that works? I thought wildly

It made a asp, turned his energy on the agent that was nowhim into the framework from the mirror that had been shattered

The Telekinetic held him pinned there like a macabre butterfly while he writhed around

Gra hands shredded He scooped up the puppy and twirled it around like a baton and made a quick jab at the back of the Telekinetic’s head

He slid to the floor Out

Skinny-Saze trained on me, his devotion obvious I turned my back on his stare

Gramps turned to me and I sucked in my breath when I saw the mess of his face Then I looked at the floor The Null was a bloody pulp

"Graet Jade awake!" I pointed to the Ca the but of his puppy, he jalass and Clyde and I rabbed et you to the guy"

I looked at the bars and realized they were locked Even Clyde couldn’t tear the Archer up by his armpits

We hauled him over to the prison type bars and he held his palainst the plate sized pulse pad It slid open with a whisper and a hiss

We moved toward Sensei Anderson, ent looked at the delectably vulnerable girls that stood before him, dressed in clothes their subconscious’s had fashioned for thehed

To finally be allowed to cause suffering airlfriend of Caleb, who had been abused in the past, to taste her fear like subtle and fine wine upon his tongue was an aphrodisiac of the highest order

Hethe lovely features of the diminutive and finely sculpted Jade He would have her underneath hients would be holding the boy and dispatching whom they deemed necessary By the ti women would be beaten and broken dolls, simple vessels for his abuse and release

He ht heart

Jade

Jade’s heart lay broken She would never say goodbye to Caleb, she would suffer and die in this place of abject neutrality, never seeing anyone she cared about again Sophie alongside her Perone

Permanently