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Harlech gave her a list of errands that would keep her out for hours
"Have the truck brought out to the front drive," she told him "Someone will have to attend to our lord while I am in the city Is Dr Keller in the infirmary now?"
Harlech confir for the city She found Alexandra sitting and peering into a er without raising her head from the scope "Give me a sec"
The time drew out to severalignored "I will return another time"
"Hold your palfreys, kid; I’ down figures on a pad filled with thehty-seven, and I’htened and sain because I’m lazy Ready for the next injection?"
Jayr’s eyes widened "After what happened to "
"What happened?"
"My lord and I… and then I dreamed--" She stopped She couldn’t tell Alexandra these things; they were too private "It o into the city I need you to reverse the treatment Will you do it now?"
"Sure, not a probleht" She switched off the e
Jay felt taken aback by her reaction to her demand "You do not object?"
"You want to play Peter Pan forever, that’s your business" She plunged the needle into a vial of liquid "No skin off my nose"
"I cannot serve my lord in this state," Jayr told her "I do not even trust o to sleep, for that s like tits and a sex life and being a noruy and waiting hand and foot on Byrne" She patted the exaht Whatever"
Suspicionto shame me"
"You think?" Alexandra set down the needle and folded her ar about his lordship for two seconds What do you want, Jayr?"
Last night Byrne had co at herself Jayr had not been asha her in the mirror had thrilled her
And dis for him to see
"I want to be like other women," she admitted "But--"
Alexandra’s hand whipped up "No buts Be a kid or a woman Decide Now"
"Very well" She scowled as she went over to the exahed "Oh, now it’s not fast enough?"
"Givein the for the dose should double the effect, should it not?" She would simply keep busy and have soht" The doctor hesitated "But that much hormone in your systeo into town tonight Two of our people have left the Realm and… It is co foolish" She held out her arm
"I want you to come back here before dawn so I can check you over," Alexandra said as she administered the shot When Jayr stood, she added, "Wait; I need to talk you about soed you froht?"
"He was"
"I don’t think so" She discarded the syringe "Last night I ran a test to compare your blood sample with one I took from Byrne They don’t match As a matter of fact, your blood doesn’t match any other sample that I have in the database"
"Why would ht "I a our kind"
"That’s not what I en in your blood should be identical to his It isn’t" Alexandra picked up soht theed them beneath the lenses before she stood back "Come here and look"
Jayr peered into the lenses of the device and sao squares filled withdots "This is what our blood really looks like?"
"Yep The red things with the black centers are your blood cells," she told her "The red things with no centers are the huest"
Jayr watched the dots collide with one another "My blood cells are attacking the hu the on the scope, and the lenses switched, er "See those three little dots in the center of the black nuclei?"