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Jackal snorted “That little paper pusher of Vanderale’s?”

Paper pusher, his ass Ms Rodriquez was looking for soure out what yet

“That’s ht His own investigation into Mercury’s lab years had brought hi e

At one tienetics had been altered with His sense of s distances had broken records Sight, hearing, night vision, scent and taste—he had been exceptional

Until he’d begun showing shows of feral displace to perform his missions within their proper parameters And the unknown hormone attached to the adrenaline that flooded his body at those times Feral fever or displacement the scientists had called it Jonas preferred to think of it as the call of the wild All the signs Mercury had exhibited in the labs had been those of an ani insane in the search for freedom

But that didn’t explain as going on now Or why the horain Unless, so his little paper pusher as Jackal called her

“Give Merc space, Jonas,” Jackal advised hi weird, then he deserves it That man is too damned calm the way it is”

And Jonas would have agreed with hi to worry, and worry wasn’t so he liked He preferred action, decisive forwardto help much

The cabin was too quiet, and she had grown too used to Mercury’s presence Even before he had been assigned to stay in the cabin with her, he had occasionally coh to leave her wanting more before he left

She had never been certain where he went, but he had always returned the nextto escort her back to Sanctuary

Now she felt a bit lost without him

There was plenty of work to do She still had the me on her to analyze the with alarularity

So it to a research lab detere depression that went along withheat occurred, or developing so to ease the sy aging and creating fortunes off the desperation of millions

It was a night

And was she working on the chips that contained the infor those secrets Of course she wasn’t She was pacing her bedrooainst the chill that seeone