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"Okay, your call" She stood and stretched "You finish your breakfast, without choking I’et started on the data entry for the unitto work perfectly"

"Cool Be there soon" Meryn frowned down at her apple slices

Elizabeth s in the next few months

CHAPTER TEN

Meryn joined her half an hour later and they really began to make headith the personnel files The more she input thestrange about the files?" she asked

Meryn nodded gravely "There are sothem so we can track and archive their reports, but there are so many It’s like each unit loses a member at least once every other year" Meryn looked up at her fear in her eyes "I had no idea they had lost so many" Her eyes filled "I don’t want to lose anyone"

Elizabeth felt her own tears threaten to spill over Shaking her head she deepened her resolve "We won’t lose anyone They have us now, Meryn, and their own es that will help to keep theram That triples the manpower available We’re here for a reason, don’t forget that"

Meryn scrubbed at her eyes with the sleeve of her tee-shirt Elizabeth actually looked forward to eachto see what Meryn would wear Today she had on a Ghostbusters tee-shirt Meryn smiled at her "Thanks, I needed that pep talk I’ll stay positive, it’s justI’ve been targeted before I still have nightmares; they’re so hard to shake because it really happened It’s terrifying when you can’t even see your ene to hold herself together

Seconds later, Ryuu breezed through the door and was at her side "What is the h that I could feel it in the kitchen" He knelt down in front of her and ran a thuon tattoo around Meryn’s wrist

"Just re Bunny that what made it especially scary was the fact that we couldn’t see the an unseen ene ’Blindtheir bodies totheir other senses It must have been a blow to their pride that they couldn’t defend Meryn

"I will do whatever I can to help Keelan and the other witch Quinn to devise a spell to keep theht struck Elizabeth "Not to jinx us, but what has kept the back? I mean if we can’t see them why haven’t they attacked before now?"

Ryuu stood, crossing his arht about it before answering "For the first week after the attack I ordered uard the house They areand I can’t et close to the house the spirits would h to keep them away They are cautious This is the factor that has the men confused Normally ferals are all about their base desires They are one step up froence to lay basic traps or trick hus through and are leery, thisthat the reason why they have stayed out of the house up until now is because of me I am an unknown to theained information from him, even in death They may not want to tip their hand and that is what erous than the typical feral"