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Someone knocked on her door "Bren, you back, too? Want soainst thenineteenth-century patterns for inspiration "What’re you doing eating pizza at this hour, Andrew Liah, Drew cracked open the door to throw her a grin "I’ boy"
"Well, I’m not, so don’t tempt me" She opened the book "Shoo"
"Your loss, baby sister" Sending her another grin, he pulled the door shut
She squeezed her eyes closed and then took several deep breaths to think past the lu up her throat But no matter how hard she concentrated, she was too e, much less the book in her hands All she could think was that she needed Judd, needed him to hold her She knew that to be a foolish, impossible wish, but the ani hiht the enveloping wings of sleep What awaited her was anything but restful
A ju kind of panic She’d made a mistake and now it had to be cleaned up -
Snatches of sound A laughing child Fear Joy Birthday cake -
He was so sexy, she wanted to -
Fear A salty/wrong/bad scent It was a mess Had to be cleaned up -
Brenna moaned and turned onto her side If soed her awake But she was alone, and she was drea broken snatches of thought Her mind searched for an anchor and found the way blocked It shouldn’t have been
A er: He shouldn’t have done that!
A second later, she was dreaan to rise behind him, hands thrust into his pockets and head covered by the pulled-up hood of a black sweatshirt that turned hiht on surveillance equipiven his skills - his identity would be impossible to deterone to considerable trouble to ensure the blast bore no Psy fingerprint, using s as well as Psy
Alarms sounded behind hi deployed That posed no threat He’d designed the blast radius to take out a key section without reliance on the destructive powers of fire Nothing inside that square should be salvageable if his explosives had functioned as they were meant to And he had no doubts that they had - after all, he’d been trained by Councilor Ming LeBon hiuards didn’t notice his telekinetically blurred body as he slid right past them and into the four am darkness of the quiet street The Council had made a cold calculation and located this lab in a suburban area, believing that here, a civilians, it would escape discovery and attack They should’ve known better
Fading into the shadows on the other side of the street, he checked the buildings on either side of the lab, ready to throw up a Tk shield to ensure their safety - because, unlike the Council, he didn’t consider civilian casualties necessary collateral dae His caution proved redundant Not even a spark had escaped the confines of the target co on up and down the street as he watched At the same instant, security personnel pounded out of the coone cold the second after he’d walked out It had taken the this op had beco undetected for over a year
It was exactly the reaction Judd and the Ghost had planned on
Satisfied, he took one last look at the rapidly dying flaht black of a faset, he found his eyes drawn to the still-darkon the second floor That roo boy with y than coordination Judd had seen hi his trips to scout the area
The child’s presence had uised lab across the road evenon in that place was meant to destroy the ht finally caht have envied, and landed in an even darker yard No one was home here and wouldn’t be for several days He’d done his ho the alarmed lock took him a quarter of a minute Once inside, he stood with his back to the doorway, not going any farther These people hadn’t invited hie However, when he tried to relax his body andasleep - a trick all soldiers learned early on - he found he couldn’t There was pressure on the back of his skull, a hard push he ht’ve taken for an attempt to penetrate his shields had the pressure not seemed to coainst psychic attack No cracks He was about to go deeper when the pressure sier, he put the problem down to a lack of sleep and sent his htly focused, it was no wonder he er of soerous than any Psy weapon
Three hours later, he left the house to blend seaers and walkers More than one changeling had pointed out that he looked Psy even when dressed otherwise, so he’d spent ti er But it wasn’t natural for hi, and that would never change
He passed several Psy patrols without incident, aware they were illegallyeveryone who passed What they would read off hiover hu about theuishable fronia on the left shoulder - two snakes twisted in co LeBon’s private are of this little enterprise Not what he would’ve expected, given Nikita Duncan’s proxi’s ho had decided to relocateperhaps to track down a rebel Arrow