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I think about it long and hard About everything

And then I hand her un

Nora looks up at it briefly and then takes it into her blood-stained fingers

"Then welcome aboard," I say

And the fact that she doesn’t shoot me in the back, or run away into the streets of Boston when I leave her sitting there and go back inside, further proves she’s telling the truth that I already knew

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Four days later…

I wish I could say that things are getting back to normal around here, but that couldn’t be further froone and none us have seen hi in the back of a bar somewhere nearby, and either would be believable His cell phones don’t even ring anyht to voicemail, or tell e I stopped calling hio When he wants to be found, he’ll let us know And I’ll worry about the outcome of that day until it happens

Dorian, after Fredrik interrogated hi hours, I’m happy to say is still alive He’s still imprisoned in cell C and will probably be there for a while until Victor figures out what to do with hi Dorian told Victor see else that we know of But the thing with Victor keeping Dorian alive, I believe, is ence and if they will retaliate in reaction to Dorian’s death But Victor says it appears that the kind of private contractor Dorian is, if he were ever killed or co about hience knows about us that keeps Victor fro each of us and giving that information to his superiors, employers, whatever they’re called--I’m in the dark when it comes to this stuff and Victor doesn’t talk about it much…orwith Nora Kessler to notice

I started the following day after the night I let her in And already I feel like I have to watch my back every moment of every day--not because she can’t be trusted, but because as part of her training, she attacksas a break At anyme, mentally or physically, or in any way she sees fit It’s the sao, but much more intense She fucks with my head so often that I can’t tell the difference when she’s lying toure it out Learn to fully trust iven situation accordingly without ever thinking about it "If you have to stop and think about it, you’ve already fucked up," she said during one of the rare tiivenas ‘think before you react’, it’s about changing the way you think and react naturally"

I never expected any training to be like this And it’s just beginning

Today Nora joins us at the table for her first