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"And you?" Silver asked

"I’irlfriend?" Silver asked, his voice clearly indicating that he thought tracking irlfriends"

I ignored hiht for a ed He turned back to the room behind the bookcase--which I could see had a toilet and sink, an army cot, a control deck for the security syste box of files--in order to put the gun down He also picked up the box and then walked past us, toward the living room, as the door to the panic room slid shut

"I was dead when I opened that door," he said, over his shoulder "So I le file, we shuffled after Silver’s disheveled, wild-haired form as if ere in some bizarre pantoe box down in order to pour himself a stiff belt of booze, and the rest of us all joined hiht, and it was just beginning

"Here’s what you ca is in there Well, everything from my time, so I don’t kno rim "I’m not responsible for what happened after I left… But there’s Conleth’s childhood, the records of the testing we did, and records about everyone orked with me at the laboratory What’s not on paper is on the data sticks at the bottom"

Ryu conteift horse, one he now had to look in the

Calaically buttering him up She sat down on the otto until a few years ago," Ca Silver in the eyes "Why did that change? Who took over the lab once you left?"

Silver shrugged, blinking slowly "I don’t really know Until a few years ago, ere basically functioning as Conleth’s guards With his powers, he couldn’t be released into the general population So even though eren’t experiovernment paid us to keep hi he knew I think he considered us faot word froht out by a new company and that we had a new sponsor A private sponsor That’s when everything changed"

"Changed how?"

"It started small New nurses Who weren’t really nurses in h and they started doing their own ‘experis that could not really be called… science"

"Such as?"

"Strange things Invasive And that couldn’t have been pleasant for Con I started looking into it and voicing my opposition, and was I summarily fired They replaced me with the worst of the new technicians He was… off I don’t knohat his deal was, but he wasn’t right On any level I don’t knohat they did to Con for the last few years, but itThe boy I left wouldn’t have done those things He wasn’t really a prisoner to us And I think he loved us, and we cared for hied him, completely"

Silver took a deep pull from his drink as we fell silent, each wrapped up in our own thoughts, until Caain

"Do you have any idea who this co to tease his laic probe, but every time she did so, Silver’s face went slack I realized his mind had already been messed with, and not by us

The oldhimself to speak "The company’s information is in one of those files Well, what I could find, which wasn’tGod only knohat As for the new sponsor, e first got the news, there was a liaison sent to look everything over She spent a lot of ti focus "It’s… fuzzy She’s… hard to remember I know I met her, but…" He fell silent as his face went blank "What were you asking?" he said suddenly, looking at Camille as if he wasn’t sure when she’d sat down

Oh yeah, he’d been fucked with, all right HisRyu could have driven through them

I’m surprised he even re

"Did you everthat Silver would never re about the feher-ups, thewith someone," he insisted "Someone who knows the power structure"

"We haven’t found any evidence that Conleth is working with anyone," Ryu said, soothingly "Everyone from the laboratory he’s attacked, he’s attacked on his own"

"Well, then, who’s killing the others?" Silver derief