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"No" Indigo gave a distasteful shiver "Ruby Crush, street na piece of very "It boosts norht?"

"As it scrao shook her head "Rush freaks turn into witless, giggling idiots Tih" She glanced at her tio Tell Judd I need to talk to him if you see him"

Brenna nodded, but hours passed and Judd didn’t appear Her frustration turned to worry, then jackknifed into anger Where the hell was he and why couldn’t he have called?

You’re kidding yourself if you think he isn’t capable of executing someone

He’s not the kind of nore the voices, but part of her listened Part of her finally began to see

Juddshowered and changed in the small room Perez kept for situations like this It wasn’t yet noon, but it ht in the centuries-old crypt under the light-filled building

"Why do you think some humans feel the need to inter their dead?" The voice cas let their dead turn to dust"

Judd had neither the tie in a philosophical discussion He wanted to return to the den and see if Brenna was okay The talk with Faith had appeared to help her, but if she’d had more of those dreams, she could be in trouble And he was the only one she trusted enough to come to forcomfort

"Are there other labs?" he asked point-blank, well aware that his urgency to see Brenna was a minor breach of Silence, the first step on the road to temptation He wouldn’t touch her, he justified, simply make sure of her welfare

"Of course, but the one you disabled thisinvolved, we could be looking at Europe"

"No, the Council would’ve preferred that - there’s a proble to relocate"

"Must be so if they haven’t overridden her objections" No one stood against the Council without either an uni on it - they’ve got a blackout around her Everything’s classified"

"Do you know her designation?"

"Gradient 99 M-Psy"

"Rare" Most Psy that powerful tended to cross the 01 boundary over into cardinal rank Judd had always considered his own 99 Tk status an advantage The telekinesis, when combined with his 94 ability in telepathy, made him far more of a threat than ht-sky eyes that betrayed his power When he tried very hard, he could even appear harht’ve only been a few hours, but data traveled fast in the Net

"Unconfirmed reports state the prototype was destroyed If that’s true, it’ll take them at least six months to reconstruct it However, if we take Aleine out of the equation, we set them back years She’s the brains behind the entire project"

Judd had killed before And he’d done so with clean efficiency Not one of his hits had ever been labeled an execution, much less traced back to the Arrow Squad "I’ll need er trusted anyone when it came to this aspect of his abilities

"I want to hold off in any case Wethe information in her head" A pause

Judd’s need to return to the den pushed at him to finish this and leave "What?"

"I’ve heard ruht not be in full support of Protocol I"

That she was the scientist in charge of developing the implant nonetheless was no contradiction in ter cooperation "What are the chances of turning her?"

"Slim to none She’s been in the Council substructure since she turned seventeen Her entire family consists of a four-year-old son Keenan Aleine lives off-site in an aparto"

"With his father?" Psy bore children as part of fertilization contracts Custody depended on the terms of the individual contract

"No The child is under Council protection Lives in the saroup"