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A Gray lurcher bursts into the room, weapon drawn Four others accompany her "Dominus, we have a breach in the lower level We have to escort you to a safer room"

"Who?" the Jackal rasps Victra and I draw our razors The Gray is about to anshen the alarhter over the speakers It echoes through the roo of the place blacks out We hurry to the door A slass , high-pitched keening I sturenade

Dark shapes fly into the roo red out of terrible visages The Sons have conar storms in from the hall and catches three stunFist blasts to his chest He goes down like a felled tree Onereturns, Ifor the code to the facility’s mainframe He shoves the muzzle of his scorcher into the Jackal’s ives it up

"Some Gold," rasps a distorted voice

Behind theoing to But he waits foroff the results of the flash grenade, and grab one of the intruder’s weapons, taking it foron purpose Then they are gone, back out theThe Grays lie dead on the ground Victra bleeds from a shallow head wound and rises to her feet The Jackal tries to stand, blood dripping from his nose

Wordlessly, we try the doors to the room They’re locked The Sons have control of the ainst the door Then he rears back and slaain till blood pours down his face I have to pull hihs darkly for ahimself

"Twice," he sneers "Twice they violate h his body "I was breaking them Another day Maybe two and they would have cracked"

"Who?" Victra asks

He doesn’t answer I press the question "Who, Adrius? Who the hell was that?"

"Terrorists Came for captured Sons," he says impatiently "One was the Pink bitch who tried to kill us on Luna, Darrow It wasn’t Pliny after all It was the Sons Another was one of Ares’s right hands They call her Har them an army of carved soldiers"

"You had captured Sons of Ares here? When were you going to tell us this?" Victra snarls, standing fro the pulse of a dead Gray

"I wasn’t Not until I kneho Ares was"