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"Love?" Sadi coughed out a surprisingly delicate laugh "How very" She seeht word "Weak?"

My shoulders stiffened as Ithe key word"

"Explain toforward

I waited for Dee to chime in, but for once, she appeared happy to remain quiet "She suffered a fatal injury, and I healed her without knowing that it would mutate her Some of my abilities were transferred to her, and ere connected together from that moment on"

"What made you want to heal her?" Curiosity colored his tone

Dee snorted "I don’t think he was thinking with the head on his shoulders when he did it, if you get what I e to shoot my sister a look, Rolland stared at ot what Dee meant but was also very interested in a whole lot of detail

"Interesting," murmured Sadi as she flipped a wealth of coppery hair over a sliht is this bond or connection between you?"

I shiftedat the silent Luxen ainst the wall "She dies; I die Tight enough for you?"

Rolland’s eyes widened "Well, that is not goodfor you"

"Yep," I drawled out

A slow curl of Sadi’s lips ry "And does she feel what you feel? And vice versa?"

"Only if it’s a near-fatal wound," I answered, voice flat as the floors

Sadi glanced at Rolland, and I knew they were co Their words were lost in the huerness that suddenly crept over Sadi’s face had

I didn’t trust her

I didn’t trust Quiet Dude, either

"You don’t have to trust her," Rolland said, s widely "We just have to trust you"

Dee stiffened "We can be trusted"

"I know" His head cocked to the other side "And there was so the ever-helpful minion, Dee nodded as she sat down in an arin, a product of a Luxen male and a hybrid female I hope we don’t have to kill hilanced at Sadi, and again, I knew they were getting all kinds of secret squirrel chatty with each other

Coe suit jacket "There’s a lot we don’t know These hybrids are new to us," he said, which als who’d never been to Earth, they seee about the layout There was so, or a bunch of so fro on you and your family, others like you, to aid us in these situations"