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Nice history lesson, but as the point? Why would the DOD na human mutation after some dude--?

Then it struck s that bettered le was kind of like huic, but coovernanization after a Greek legend

Closing the laptop, I stood and foundoutside I really didn’t knohy Who knew if there were ination for in the tree and a red dot appearing on loves froh theso into overdrive, I started rolling a ball of snow across the front yard Everything had changed in afro ied on er saw the world in black and white and deep down I knew I didn’t operate on basic social norms anymore

Like thy shalt not kill or whatever

I hadn’t killed Brian Vaughn, the Officer who had been paid off by Will to turn me over to hie to ensure that Daeht, but I had wanted to and I would have if Daemon hadn’t beaten me to it

I’d been totally okay with the idea of killing so the two evil aliens, the Aru totally kosher with killing a human did Not sure what that said about me, because like Daemon had said once before, a life was a life, but I didn’t kno to process adding the words ‘okay with killing’ to the bio section on loves were soaked by the ti the second lu anything other than causing my cheeks to burn in the frosty, snow-scented air Fail

When I was done, my snowman had three sections, but no arms or face It kind of mirrored how I felt inside I hadvital pieces to make me real

I really didn’t knoho I was any back, I ran the sleeve of ed breath Muscles burned and skin ached, but I stood there until thea slice of silvery light over my incomplete creation

There’d been a dead body in

I sat down in the ht in a pile of cold snow A dead body--another dead body, just like Vaughn’s dead body that had fallen near the driveway, just like Adaht I’d tried to ignore wor to protecther fro that night we fought Baruck and about everything thereafter, she and Ada my house They would’ve known about Blake and hoas likeback on a souped-up alien level

Blake

I should’ve listened to Daemon Instead, I wanted to prove ood intentions when Dae off about the boy I should’ve knohen Blake had thrown a knife at my head and leftvery demented about him

Except was Blake demented? I didn’t think so He’d been desperate Frantic to keep his friend Chris alive and trapped by what he’d beco to protect Chris Not because his life was joined with the Luxen, but because he cared for his friend Maybe that’s why I hadn’t killed hi was pure chaos, I saw a part of me in Blake

I’d been okay with the idea of killing his uncle to protect my friends

And Blake had killed ht? Was anyone?

I was so caught up in hts, I didn’t payacross my neck I jumped when I heard Dae?"

I twisted around and lifted my head He stood behind li a snowaze drifted beyondsome stuff"

"Yeah," I said morosely

Dae in the snow Your jeans have to be soaked" There was a pause and damn if that frown didn’t turn upside down "Wait That et a better look at your butt, then"

I laughed Leave it to Daes down a level or two

He glided forward as if the snowhis legs Neither of us said anything for aout here?" he asked

I’d never been able to hide anything froo there with hi on with Dawson? Has he run off yet?"

Dae to push the subject for a moment but then just nodded "Not yet, because I followed hi a bell on hihed softly "I doubt he’ll appreciate that"

"I don’t care" A little bit of anger flashed in his voice "Running off after Beth isn’t going to end well We all know that"

No doubt "Daemon, do you…"

"What?"

It was hard to put into words what I thought, because once I said them, they became real "Why haven’t they come after Dawson? They have to know he’s here It would be the first place he’d come back to if he had escaped And they’ve obviously been watching" I gestured back at my house "Why haven’t they colanced at the snowman, silent for several heartbeats "I don’t know Well, I have my suspicions"

I sed past the lu in my throat "What are they?"

"You really want to hear the at the snowoing to arrange for Dawson to be released And they let it happen"