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wearing off, leaving my blood feeling lik

me?" Ben's voice wa

of focus. We were still in the holding

ped, my voice soundin

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t a strange, icy cl

er now, masked by the adrenaline and th

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med into my mind l

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d my moon. Now, it sounded like a stranger s

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rce my body to obey.

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whispered to Ben, awe colorin

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to move

er my weight. We navigated the back corridors

from the adjacent lab-Chlo

m. Raw, guttural, an

his face draining of color. "Tha

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aid, stop

ting of antiseptic, I smelled blood

ering someon

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re me was a wa

table. Her pristine white go

was strapped down, unconsciou

over an incision. Her eyes w

nurse cowering in the corner. "His kidney isn't com

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pun a

and supposed to be dead-she didn'

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stared at her, horror replacin

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at me with

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sick,"

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fueled by madness and desperation. She scra

voice piercing. "The traitor

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nd ozone-flooded the roo

he door, his eyes

disheveled and screaming, blood on

f into his arms. "She tried to kill me

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oked dow

in his eyes. Only

said, his voice devoid of huma