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Caia shrugged Yeah, she did know that

"Stay back" Caia pointed towards the hallway and the lykan grudgingly padded away She stared at the trap door, thoughts of thetheir way to the forefront of her ? Marita hated Midnights and everything they were about and yet wasn’t what Pierre had done exactly the sa frohts off The trap door lifted easily and a set of very unstable looking stairs descended into darkness The s her shirt to her nose to block its entry Phoebe whined froh to make every small move after that one filled with trepidation There was nothe stench of death –off the backpack Marion had given her, Caia found the flashlight and dipped its light down into the base to be walking into It seeh

Safe perhaps physically, but e the torch fro her nose and mouth, Caia willed away the eive into There were fivelykan sliced open in varyingfrom their exposed innards Metal chains were still wrapped around their limbs from when they had been alive and chained down She didn’t even want to think of a lykan being awake and aware during such experi the beaes sat, so es threatened to overwhelm her

"I have to find the liquid," Caia reminded herself softly and made to move back towards the end of the baselass cabinet was placed against the wall, rows upon rows of vials of liquid gold inside

Now all she needed to do was destroy it

Silently, ift froe crystal with a gold stopper plugged into the top She wasn’t quite sure of its ht arsenal

"Just pull the stopper out and drop the crystal into the base You’ll hear a soft pop"

"What does it do?"

"Don’t worry, it can’t hurt living things It merely cleans up thethe door after it

"Wait, I wanted to see!" Phoebe hissed as she marched into the storeroory face a sound like an ear popping at high altitude could be heard from the other side

"Sorry, it’s too late"

"Well, as down there?"

She could tell her the truth, about the atrocities those two Midnights had committed with the help of huoodbye to a potential ally If Phoebe had seen it with her own eyes there would have been no way to convince her that not all Midnights were bad Describing it would just be another nail in the coffin of Caia’s plan

"But this is a war Caia, and we have to sacrifice a part of our soul to win it"

"It was just a lab Che to Hades

"What about that goddess-awful sh, char"

Confident that she had convinced the hunter, Caia pulled at the trap door Together she and Phoebe leaned in as she opened it, their torches illu there

"What?"

Eyes wide, she treht around