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"I asked his would be less confusing if I wasn’t in your life," Evangeline says, flicking a look at me "So as I summoned here?"
Shadows from the fire dance across her pale skin as we tell her the story of Edmund Rose and Theora and our plan to transplant his beloved’s heart inside a twin-blood Anger darkens Evangeline’s beautiful face as I explain our theory about Rose’s plot to convert everyone to huets a few surprised looks from my parents and Garrick--ere all so exhausted and in shock after the attack on the Sentry rebel stronghold, we fell asleep in the Transporter, so I never got a chance to tell therips my mother’s hand, and she passes hieline asks
"His grandfather and his Blood Mate, Theora, were hybrids," I say "He loved the his fa on
When we’re finished telling her everything we know, the sun has started to set over the city, turning the sky a brilliant orange and old I’ve eline takes a deep breath, digesting everything
"So you wanther question at Dr Craven It’s the first tiine how hard it is for her being around him, when he’s the man who ripped out her heart while she was still conscious and gave it to me
"I honestly don’t know," he says "The heart is very old, and enerate the tissue Not to mention, it’s a Lupine heart"
"I can help with that," Yolanda adds "Ouraccess to a hospital"
"There’s a private doctor’s office downstairs, below the gymnasium," Amy says shyly "Patrick had heart troubles, because of his weight, so there’s all sorts of equipeline "I know it is a lot to ask But will you consider it?"
Evangeline sighs "Yes, I’ll do it"
Ash leans over and gives her a hug Her arer than I’m comfortable with I tearwhat to do next, while Beetle and Lucinda head into the kitchen and prepare so back plates of ripe fruit, even riper cheese and solasses of Synth-O-Blood Emissary Bradshawservants Everyone hungrily tucks into the food while Aital screen It immediately turns on to SBN news
February Fields smiles back at us in that blank way of hers as she reads the headlines: a re; Purian Rose’s upco held in the Golden Citadel; a devastating "explosion" at a s on Huovernenda); plus there’s been a "reorganization" of the Sentry cabinet Reading between the lines, I’anization involves the execution of several ministers that Rose suspected were involved in the Sentry rebellion The streets of Centruet soeline’s as she reaches for the Synth-O-Blood at the same time She looks up and their eyesaway A seline’s lips Our conversation eventually turns toward Wings
"So let eline says "Purian Rose has been s, which is a coht Whisper and some retrovirus that turns people into hybrid Lupines?"
Dr Craven nods "But the for"
She frowns "If Purian Rose intends to turn everyone into hybrids, how’s he planning to do it?"
"He’ll have to infect everyone with Wings at the sahtly He’s still slouched in his seat, gripping his injured stomach
"How could he do that?" ur’s and Yolanda’s o how Lucinda atte the first war, before Sigur and my father stopped her Shortly afterward, Lucinda was sent to the Barren Lands cadoms disbanded
Mother shakes her head "The orks are designed to immediately shut down if they detect any viruses We had to add that feature after your failed sabotage attempt"
"You’re welcome," Lucinda replies dryly
"Besides, the water would weaken the effects of the Haze and Night Whisper in the drug Rose has added thes for a reason, so it would seem to defeat the object to dilute it," Dr Craven says "No, the drug needs to be delivered in its concentrated format to be effective"
As the fories Depart or two about delivery systelasses and wearily rubs his eyes It catches uard sometimes how much he looks like his son, Sebastian--they have the sareen eyes--except, I recall, Sebastian’s eyes weren’t green when I saw hirim in Thrace, and the men I saw in Scott’s shop in Gallium
The memory of that visit sends shivers down my spine as I recall the homeless man I saw outside the chapel next to Scott’s shop, with his rotting face andOh! I bolt upright, startling Ash, who is sitting beside lass bottles with a ht the bottles were Scott’s garbage, but I realize now they weren’t They belonged to the church next door I recall the sound of the church bells chi called in for--
"The Cleansing cere cere to infect everyone He’sthem drink it as part of the ritual" I briefly explain rim in Thrace with the silver eyes, and the homeless man in Galliu
"The ho toward Dr Craven "Just like the girl from the patient-trials video you showed s without realizing what it was, and got ill"
Roach sinks back in her chair, her blue dreadlocks falling around her freckled shoulders "Fragg, millions of people are expected to attend that"
"How did that Pilgriht Rose had only given Wings to his own men"
Dr Craven is the one who answers "I’m sure Rose would have wanted to do so it out on the national stage It’s what I would have done, anyway," he says "Chances are he sent vats of Wings to a select number of churches across the country, like the one in Galliu their daily Cleansing cereot infected too He was a lab rat"
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