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Concentrating, she opened herself up to her ability, and heat ripped down her ar the curves and lines of her derift channeled into the olf

The disease rolled over her, a dirty sludge of information that made her arm and mind heavy In her head, the visuals swirled--she could see the twisted, squiggly virus strings wrapped around blood cells, squeezing the life out of them The shape of the virus strands were different than the ones in Con, but she visualized the way Con’s virus had been destroyed, and then she blasted the ith power Stinging gooseflesh prickled fro the disease, taking it back to its beginning stages

Nothing happened

She concentrated harder Sweat beaded on her brow

Still nothing

Breathing deeply, she unleashed the full force of her power, until it felt as though her ar Inside her skull, a hive of angry bees buzzed Distantly, she heard Eidolon calling her na as sweat dripped into them

Feedback strea The olf’s blood cells vibrated, and all around them, the virus strands broke apart First, it was just a few, but suddenly, they were exploding like popcorn Tiny bits of the virus rushed through the vessels

Encouraged, Sin probed the male’s network of veins and arteries, and everywhere, the enereat fix, and as her h-def, she sh his bloodstrea the walls of the arteries… clogging at the narrows Oh, shit Sin dialed back her power and shifted the visuals to the area around his heart Suddenly, beeping alarli, the veins and arteries around it flattening as they becaed

Someone tore her away, and she stood there, dazed and in disbelief, as Eidolon and half a dozen staffIdess, Lore’shuman souls out of the hospital, entered the roon Turned olves had hu, Sin didn’t kno long she watched, but when Eidolon cursed violently and called the time of death, she walked out of the roo or what she was doing All she kneas that her right arn that she was about to bleed

"Sin! Stop!" Eidolon stepped in front of her, and when he raised his hand, she braced herself for a punishing blow But instead of striking her, he gripped her shoulders, forcing her to stop "It wasn’t your fault He was going to die anyway" She didn’t point out that it was still her fault

"Can you tell ?"

"Yeah," she said as she twisted out of his grip "My psychotic hed bitterly "She always said she was a screwup I guess I inherited that, huh? I rown solely for killing off ht"

"Hey" Eidolon reached for her again, but when she stepped back, he dropped his hand Still, there was compassion in his eyes, compassion she didn’t want or need "What happened to you as a child, what’s happening now… I’m sorry I’ve been hard on you--"

"Whatever" She cut him off, way too uncomfortable with the uilt erupted no one would witness her pain or try to ure out a way to end this"

Her brother was intuitive enough to know she needed to change the subject, and he rolled with it as if he’d never tried to get all apologetic "Tell " "There was too much of the virus in his systeed up his veins" Eidolon appeared to consider that "Do you think that if you got to someone before so much of the virus was in the blood you could kill it without the sa?"