MY CRUEL PROTECTOR
finally being realized.
"What is this?" Nevan whispered.
"This is Julian," I said, stepping between them, though the glass made the gesture redundant. "He is the Prometheus Sequence, Nevan. He is the third strand. He is the cure."
Nevan didn't look at me. He didn't look at the med-bay. He looked at Julian’s face—at the unscarred skin, the steady hands, the calm posture. He looked at the man he should have been.
A violent surge of energy erupted from Nevan’s side of the glass. The air-curtains flickered as his subconscious lashed out, the pressure of his rage cracking the first layer of the silica.