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"You able to put out some feelers?" Clay asked

A sharp nod "I don’t kno ood as you would think of it He’s not evil, either, but he won’t do anything unless it complies with his personal code That code involves a deep loyalty to his race However, since he passed on the infor"

Talin hoped with all her heart that the huer than the Silence

Chapter 35

Jonquil opened his eyes and for a horrifying second, thought he was blind His lungs grew tight as he fought the screaers touched his forehead "Lie still"

"You" Relief turned his li with rossly swollen" She touched the pain "I apologize I was applying a salve - give it a few ible level"

He trusted her She was the only adult in this place who hadn’t tortured him "What did they do toa new coration of an iht the idea "They poisoned me?"

"That wasn’t the point, but let’s say it’s a good thing for you that their science was flawed Had it not been, you’d be dead now"

He was used to listening for nuances in people’s voices However, Blueshe was beautiful, with her smooth skin and wolf eyes, but her voice was utterly toneless So he ?"

A sent Yes It was to e that their experiment failed"

"Why?"

"I need you alive" She touched his face, then his neck "Why do you have so ? It should have been a siht now Relieved that she’d been telling the truth about his eyes, he answered alht’ve tried to hit them while I was out of it"

"That explains Larsen’s black eye"

Fear clawed through hiuy hurt her? He said they wouldn’t if I cooperated"

"He lied," she responded, cold as the chill of these antiseptic walls "Nothing you can do will stop hi so care with the single undaan to s" He’d nickna her hair It had been meant to be a joke because she was so little, but it had turned out to be perfect - she never gave up "She told ht for me"

Blue’s face was now a fuzzy shape above him "Who is Talin?"

He realized he’d been led into a trap "No one"

"It’s in your best interest to tellchip I need to knohootiate"

He refused to open his h of an idiot If Talin was trying to help hiive her away to the eneh of life to know that, sometimes, evil wore a sweet face "Thank you for the eye bal position against the wall

She was dressed like before, but she had pulled down her h lines ave him a pill "It’ll capture the last of the poison and you’ll expel it during normal bodily processes"

He took it He didn’t trust her, but she’d been up front about calling hi chip That, he believed So she’d keep him alive until it suited her to do otherwise "Thank you"

A knock came on the door It was Ashaya’s cue to leave while the corridors were clear and the caht have tried to seize control of her lab, but she commanded the loyalty of most of her staff It helped that the Council had forced the a li by definition - to cut off their access to the PsyNet was a punish, she pulled up the mask and looked down at the stubborn countenance of the boy His recalcitrance didn’t matter Talin was an unusual naht to that file upon reaching her private quarters She wasn’t stupid enough to assu tabs on her even in there, but she did know they couldn’t access the organizer she carried twenty-four/seven The size of a se amounts of data as well as act as a mobile comm device It here she kept files that could compromise her

Files such as the heavily encrypted e-o

If you plan to act, do it now

The e-ht also be an atteround rebels ere currentlythe Councilors’ lives very difficult She had ways of getting news despite the psychic blackout and she knew these rebels were doing e than most people knew She also knew that the Ghost, theclassified information - such as Ashaya’s very well hidden covert e-mail address

Setup or not, she’d alreadyEither she acted now, or she could find herself permanently compromised The Councilor was a master of mental combat - should he decide that the deterioration in her productivity would be balanced out by her guaranteed allegiance, he wouldn’t hesitate to imprison her mind The humans called it le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>