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Prologue

CHANGE

Change can kill

Devastate

Destroy

But it can also save The Psy know this better than any other race on the planet With the imposition of Silence, the protocol that wiped their emotions even as it saved their minds, this race of telepaths and telekinetics, foreseers and healers, a race both gifted and cursed, clawed its way back froe of the abyss

As they stood looking down into the horror they had escaped, they shivered and turned away

Years passed And when the Psy Council declared that their once catastrophic rate of insanity had lowered to negligible levels, that there was no longer any violence in the PsyNet, they knew they'd ht decision The only decision

Love Happiness Joy What did any of that e, blood-soaked anarchy? The Psy preferred to leave such things to the "anis buried themselves in the viciousness of es on the planet

Cold Pitiless Silent

But now, in the year 2080, more than a hundred years after the " to rise And change is pulling the Psy back into the abyss Into ehtmare

Chapter 1

Mercy kicked a dry branch out of her way and glared "Stupid stick" Of course, it wasn't the defenseless stick she was mad at - it just had the bad luck to be in her path as, shoulders hunched, sherevelry of Dorian'sceremony

It was sickening how much her best friend was in love with histo et me started on Luc and Sascha"

Then there were the worst offenders of all - Nate and Tamsyn How dare they still be so crazy for each other after all these years! "Should be against the law," she snarled She wasn't even going to think about Vaughn and Faith