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Breed physiology could survive wounds that the human body couldn’t They were more resilient, better able to endure as well as heal froer and faster, they were created for abuse and trained within it

That training had killed more Breeds than lived now More than a century of the scientists’ work had created bodies and internal organs that could continue to fight under circumstances that would leave a normal human dead hours before It was the reason they were created To endure and to succeed despite all odds

“Seth” Brian Phelps moved toward the

m, a sratulations again She’s a beautiful wone before taking one for himself

“She is indeed, Brian” Seth smiled

“I just received a report froeles,” Brian told him “Valere landed and immediately called a press conference It’s a few more hours before it’s due to air I’d hoped he wouldn’t do it”

Seth shook his head as Dawn felt, scented, his regret

Seth finally shrugged “He can’t hurt the deal, Brian And it’s not the first news conference he’s called to try to put pressure on the board to force our decisions his way It won’t work now any more than it worked in the past”

Brian nodded his thinning gray head, but his expression was lined orry “It makes me wonder if the rumors of his fahed “As God is my witness, I didn’t know the true scope of ere funding, Seth Research and development, they called it The reports I received didn’tcreated”

It was, Dawn suspected, no more than that truth The Council reports tothe of those weapons, the units built or destroyed for lack of efficiency

A lack of efficiency More clearly defined, the inability to endure the horrors of their “training” And the scientists’ excuses?

Callan had nearly lost his sanity during the Senate hearings just after they revealed themselves The Council scientists’ reasons for their cruelties, expressing their utter lack of humanity, had been brief The Breeds eapons that could be tortured for infor on their missions

Their unique physiology and DNA required the various tests that were perforainst them Tests such as autopsies perfors inflicted while electrodes th and neural synapses It went on and on, the horror of it often too h those hearings

“Lawrence Industries went over the records of its board members carefully, Brian,” Seth reminded him “We’re aware of the reports that were sent out, just as we’re aware of the evidence that proved the knowledge of those we forced off the board ten years before”

Brian nodded, then his lips quirked “Have you regretted allowing Vanderale to take the place of one of those board members?” he asked “He’s definitely a unique personality, Seth Not always a comfortable one, but unique all the same”