Accidental Surrogate for Alpha
The images move faster than I can truly process them next, but my hand falls from my mouth, and my jaw drops in awe as I realize that –
That she didn’t get married after all, but instead that she ran, that she’s…
She’s with Jesse and Rafe, as they attend some kind of military school – dressed up in fatigues, her hair tucked up beneath a cap, looking for anything like…like a boy…
“Oh my god,” I mutter, and then I laugh because it just gets stranger after that –
Ariel, mixing potions in a chemistry class, her eyes going wide as one goes awry and explodes in front of her –
Ariel, an expert sniper, crouching on top of a tower and hitting the bullseye of a target that must be half a mile away –
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