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Ely paced her quarters They were small; she had preferred s in on her, and fear was driving spikes through her brain

And she was crying She wiped the tears away before wrapping her arain

Jonas had taken blood He had come to her himself, by hi about codeine Breeds couldn’t take codeine; she knew that She would have never requisitioned codeine for any Breed She didn’t even give it to humans

And so to remember thename for it: They called it Mental Simple To the point Because it messed with a Breed’s mind She would never order that either

What had he said? She lifted her head, clenched her hands over it and snarled

This was Mercury’s fault The feral displaceet them killed

He had to be confined

There was a cell beneath the labs, padded, where the Council had kept the Breeds they had experimented on when they owned the estate

A cell and a special lab

She stopped, staring into the past, sightless That lab—theAnd she couldn’t block them Breeds strapped down on tables, their bodies paralyzed by the drugs pumped into thes, the internal organs protesting the agonizing pain each Breed was enduring

Blood coated her hands as she stared at the scalpel she was holding, then into the eyes of the Breed staring back at her Rage Inhuold flared in thee

A growl tore from her throat, then a throttled scream No, she wouldn’t do that to him Just the cell That was all They could treat displacement She kne She would treat him

But first she had to get past the Breed stationed at her door

She moved to the se and popped back a handful of aspirin Her head was splitting It felt as though so it out with a blunt instrument

She pressed her fingertips to her teht the pain She had to think That was all She was the shtest of any Breed created in her lab She was taught how to be covert, how to fight How to kill