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"Faith NightStar isn’t worth the loss of so reed to provide her services through her faain "Theseand the work they do for us Added to the income we’ll lose if the businesses implement their tax strike, it’s an easy equation"

"We can’t allow the changelings to keep getting the better of us" Shoshanna clearly had no intention of conceding defeat "How does it look if we lose two Psy within months and theto talk"

Kaleb cut into the small pause "We say she ran when it beca a rival alive"

"Perfect," Nikita agreed "F-Psy are known to be mentally weak A feell-placed rumors will shred her credibility"

"We need to kno the leopards are keeping the tomen alive," Tatiana said "I’ve heard of no unexplained changeling deaths since Sascha’s defection and if she were feeding off them, there would’ve been at least two by now"

Nikita conceded the other Councilor had a point "They must have discovered a way to skirt the biofeedback issue"

"I don’t think it’s that big a problem" Marshall’s razor-blade mind "If they had a foolproof method, we’d have lost more than two"

"I’ll put some of our people on it nonetheless," Tatiana said in response "If we break the connection keeping Sascha and Faith alive, ipe the issue off the slate"

No one was in opposition

"Then it’s agreed, we don’t ance, turning against the very Councilor who’d supported his initial nomination "Any member who moves unilaterally will face eviction froht to make that call" Shoshanna’s psychic presence was icy with control

"But we do as a unit You and Henry appear to be the only ones who disagree; therefore you’re in the minority" Marshall, the voice of experience, a Councilor who’d survived htStar cannot be touched"

"I agree" Nikita added her vote

"Then we have no choice We concede to the majority" Shoshanna spoke for both Scotts and if there was so a fraction eerie in the way she and her husband moved as one to leave the Council chah to their instinctive core to understand

"We need to increase security for Councilor Duncan," Kaleb said to the re minds

"There is no need" Nikita had no desire to be seen as weak by any member of this Council Especially not the newest recruit

"Then this session is closed"

Several weeks and a hundred new experiences later, Faith found herself sitting in on a hn’s roup

"So, what’s next? Nate, you had soot a couple of contenders to take over fro to be for a while" It was an order frorinned "Don’t worry, I’m not in any hurry I have a few " Tamsyn blew him a kiss from the cushion beside him

"But I wanted to put the naht The first is Jaot and he’s proven himself" Nate paused and when no one spoke, he continued, "Then there’s Desiree Girl’s got a ood and she’s loyal"

So flickered in Faith’s consciousness, a quiet li awake Curious, she followed it And when it showed her pain and death, she didn’t flinch

"Any other possibles?" Lucas asked

"We’ve got a feho’ve got so to do," Taray hairs"

"How’s Jase?" Dorian asked, and his voice was a distorted rumble in Faith’s mind

"Healed Until the next" Tahter, atte There was pain, things breaking, such terrible loss, but it wasn’t yet set in stone, it wasn’t yet done It was a foretelling and it had nothing to do with business "Seven children are going to die"

Vaughn went motionless as those words left his mate’s mouth He brushed back her hair so he could see her face - eyes closed, lines of concentration carving sharp grooves in creamy skin "Faith?"