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The Rector's New Passion

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POV: Professor Cornelius Fell | Hermetic Order Secondary Facility, Undisclosed Location

The embryo was the most perfect thing Fell had ever made.

He stood at the incubation chamber and looked at it through the crystal viewing panel the way other people looked at sunsets or newborns, with the specific quality of attention that meant he had stopped cataloguing and started simply seeing. Five viable hybrids had come out of the Rookeries battle. Four were developing on predictable curves, useful da
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