The Architect of the Shadows
There was only the sudden, heavy realization that the body was a vessel, and the vessel was leaking.
Purity: A blade required no battery, no signal, and no permit. It was a tool of the wilderness brought into the heart of the "civilized" cage.
Silas reached for a smaller, surgical-grade scalpel. This was for the precision work—the "Shadow" work. He thought of Stacy, the youngest. She was the most innocent of the brood, perhaps, but she was still part of the infection. She was the future of the fraud, the next generation being groomed to believe that the world was a garden meant for her amusement.
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