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281. What Rejection Costs
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The Mate They Threw Away 356. Indigo I.
SageThe message came through Nessa three days later, brief and formal: a researcher named Dr. Fenwick, freshly hired to consult on the Rift-exposure cases, requesting a private meeting with the department head to discuss preliminary findings."I don't remember approving a new hire," I said, scanning the personnel file Nessa handed me."Neither do I. It came through with Council authorization attached. Fast-tracked, apparently, given the urgency of the situation."Something about that itched at the back of my mind, a wrongness I couldn't immediately name. "Show me the file again."
The Mate They Threw Away 355. The Coven's Ceremony II.
Sage.Dominic found me in the courtyard an hour after the Sisters had departed, still sitting on the low garden wall, staring at nothing in particular."Nessa told me the coven came and went already," he said, settling beside me. "That's fast, even for a group known for being efficient.""They tried to bind me. Traditional ceremony, three days, the whole ritual. It didn't take.""Didn't take how.""Like their magic hit a wall that wasn't supposed to be there. Hekate said the ritual's bound wielders far more powerful than me before. It just didn't work on whatever this is." I rubbed my eyes, the exhaustion of the last two days sitting heavy behind them. "She said it might mean I'm outside the shape their traditions were built to hold."Dominic was quiet a moment, processing that. "How does that make you feel.""Untethered," I admitted. "Everyone keeps finding new things I can do, and nobody, including me, has any idea how to actually control any of it. I didn't ask for power that break
The Mate They Threw Away 354. The Coven's Ceremony.
Sage.The Sisters of the Black Veil arrived at dawn, unannounced, the way they seemed to prefer for everything."They're in the courtyard," Nessa said, finding me mid-rounds, exhaustion still etched deep into both our faces after the night we'd had. "Six of them. Hekate's leading.""Of course she is." I set down the chart I'd been reviewing. "Did they say what they wanted?""Something about a ceremony. They didn't elaborate beyond that."I found them exactly where Nessa said, arranged in a loose circle in the Sanctuary's small courtyard garden, robes dark a
The Mate They Threw Away 353. Live Subject II.
Sage.We worked through the photographs for nearly two hours, spreading them across the small table until the surface disappeared beneath clinical horror laid out in neat, methodical rows."This one," I said, tapping a photograph near the bottom of the pile. "Different subject, but the same annotation cluster near the sternum. He's confirmed the pattern across multiple bodies now. That's not exploratory anymore. That's verification.""Verification for what, though.""I don't know yet. But verification means he's close to done mapping and getting ready to build something with what he's learned." I rubbed my eyes, the exhaustion of the night finally catching up to the adrenaline that had carried me this far. "Dominic, I need to ask you something, and I need you to actually answer instead of deflecting.""Ask.""Strahovsky built the weapon that wiped out Tartarus's ability to defend itself. You've told me that story now, the true version. But before that… before Saturn, before any of thi
The Mate They Threw Away 352. Live Subject I.
Sage.Dominic found me still sitting beside Petra's bed an hour later, the warmth from earlier finally starting to fade into ordinary exhaustion."Nessa told me what happened," he said, crouching in front of my chair, studying my face with a careful, searching attention. "Twice tonight. The ICU and then this.""I didn't have time to call you. Everything happened too fast.""I'm not upset about the timing." His hand found mine, warm and steady. "I'm upset I wasn't here for either of them.""You were moving water distribution across two territories. That matt
The Mate They Threw Away 351. Teal Mist II.
Sage.I hadn't made it three steps toward the office before Nessa's radio crackled with another call, and this time her face went carefully blank in the way it always did right before she delivered bad news."What," I said."Petra," she said. "She's crashing too. Different pattern than the others. Her silver toxicity markers just spiked instead of dropped.""That doesn't make sense. She wasn't connected to the same current as the ICU patients.""I know. I don't have an explanation. I just have a patient in trouble."I followed her at a near-run, the exhaustion in my limbs shoved aside by pure adrenaline, and found Petra thrashing weakly against her restraints, skin flushed an angry, unnatural red, monitor screaming a rhythm too fast to be sustainable."Her body's rejecting the chelation compound," Kessler said, already at her bedside, hands moving fast over the IV line. "The nymph minerals bound to the particulate matter like Strahovsky predicted, but the byproduct's acting like a tox
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