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Terror consu tide I reached for the bars, and the sanized the pain now It hat I’d felt when Sainst my cheek

I tried to call on the power that was inthe inside me It was like I was empty or detached from the Source Helpless Trapped

A lu up It wasn’t a luainstblond hair off her pale face

She turned to ive or take a year A wicked red-blue bruise spread out from her hairline, across her left cheek She would’ve been pretty if she weren’t so thin and unke her face "I was really pretty once"

Had she read hts" Her voice was hoarse, thick She glanced away, scanning the e on the double doors "You’re like hed then, lowering her pointy chin to her bent knees "You have no idea why you’re here"

Daedalus? What the hell was that? "No I don’t even knohere I am"

She started to rock a little "You’re in a warehouse It’s like a transportation pod I don’t knohat state I was out of it when they brought ers "I wasn’t assi"

I sed "You’re huh sounded "I’m not really sure any I wouldn’t flip out co

She nodded "Yes and no The Daedalus is, but they are a part of the DOD And they are involved in me, but you…" Her eyes narrowed They were a dark brown, alhts froht you in You’re here for a different purpose"

That was reassuring "What’s your na her dry lips "Everyone calls me Mo…or used to Yours?"

"Katy" I crawled closer to her, careful not to touch the cage "What were you not assi" Mo lowered her head, hiding her face behind stringy hair "I don’t even think they believe what they’re doing is wrong It’s like one big gray area with them" She lifted her chin "They had another one here A boy, but he’s not like us They ht you in"

"What did he look like?" I asked, thinking of Dawson

Before she could answer, a door shut soe, cold roo her thin arms around her bent knees "Pretend to be asleep when they coht you in isn’t as bad as the rest You don’t want to provoke theht of Smoker and his partner My sto Pretend to be asleep!"

Not knohat else to do, Iseen

The door opened and I sao sets of legs encased in black pants enter the rooes My heart was racing again, increasing the ache into behave today?" one of theto have to make this hard?"

"What do you think?" Mo spat back

The led from his hands "We don’t want to mess up the other side of your face, sweetie"

"Speak for yourself," the secondkids"

"Touch e, and she immediately went after thes, pulling her out of the cage until she was lying on the cold cehly, slarunted as he put his knee into her back, pulling her arms behind her She let out another soft cry as he wrenched her arnoring the nausea "Stop it! You’re hurting her!"

The one on her back looked over, frowning as he saw me "Look at this, Ramirez This one’s awake"

"And that one needs to be left alone," Rah money to pretend she ain’t here, Williaet out of here"

Willia down so he was eye-level with me He wasn’t very old--maybe mid-twenties The look in his dissipated blue eyes scared es Put what onto cross my hands over the thin material of h I lanced over his shoulder "Listen to this one, asking questions"