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“PDMs aren’t that strong”

“His are” Theodora s salt under Holiday’s nose “Should be lucid now Do tell us if you start getting a little warhs, dear”

A flush spreads across Holiday’s cheeks “I’m fuckin’ fine”

Theodora turns back to ht for us to use salts He’s also trained in psychesonics Even my Splinters had to wear earcaps to filter”

I sniff the air “Smells like roses and poppyseed oil”

Theodora is iuish it? My, h the forest”

“Yes, well, sewers are interesting How did Ephraiainst that man?” I ask “Those pheromones would knock Darrow on his ass”

“Zoladone,” Holiday says “He was jacked to the gills for a decade”

“Of course Conclusion on our breed hypothesis?”

“Custom hybrid, Eunomian embryo and either Priapian or Aenean spererous strain” Theodora looks back at the cell with a conteracefully articulated with her lips and eyes that it ed colt “Rarer even thantubes”

“Hysperia” Holiday’s eyes go sour

“You’ve heard of it?” I ask

She nods “Trigg and I were sent there on a Dracones kill detail once We saw the death rooer to seek Ares”

“I believe they were called pruning chambers,” Theodora says

“Atalantia was a patron,” I say, exa the man Could he serve her? Would he still? This whole charade doesn’t fit Atlas But even absent hard evidence linking Atalantia, it’s certainly eccentric enough for someone who learned her trade in the silk viper pit that was Octavia’s court I knew Atalantia for a little over a year She made even Daxo seereater character flaws—not that I can i sexual pleasure from executions Aja despised her for it”