ElecI had watched my mate sit across from that woman for forty minutes without blinking, and every second of it had felt like swallowing glass.The monitoring room was small and windowless, crowded with screens that cast a sickly blue light across Mark's tired face as he hunched over his equipment. Andrew stood behind me, still pale from the name Henrietta had spoken, and neither of us had said a word about it since the warrior dropped his radio.I did not know who the Chancellor was, but I knew fear when I saw it, and I had just watched grown warriors flinch from a title."Elec, you need to see this," Mark said, and the tremor in his normally steady voice made me cross the room in two strides.He had spent the previous night examining the kill chip he had extracted from Henrietta's neck, and the tiny device now sat inside a shallow dish beside his keyboard like a dead insect. Every scan he ran confirmed the same conclusion, that the chip was inert, empty of power, and utterly harmle
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