sonal luggage and took out a bag of real coffee beans-part of her signing bonus-and the a
butter she'd smuggled in. It tasted like cardboard, but it was warm and fil
s place was a n
No backstabbing cousins. And a fully-stock
nt cells. Each was a sealed box of reinforced alloy and energy shielding. In the corner of e
s outside the cells. They could administer sedatives, but they couldn't fix th
cility was bathed in a
and frantic, blare
N CELL BLOCK 01. ALL PERSONNEL EVACUA
or of Cell 01 was visibly bowing o
on the tiled floor. Its mechanical arm shot out and
ent Kyler William is experienc
ncentration. She could feel it. A wave of raw, untamed power washing through the very air. It was pure, chaoti
arced from a surging power conduit behind the stove, a symptom o
The tiny sprout she'd struggled to sum
touched
nstantly
ean energy surged through Hadley's veins. It was like a starving woman taking her fir
appened-exactly as she had calculated-but the sheer efficiency of it was
ed, easily twisting her a
two reinforced blast doors to reach the observation window for Cell 01. The m
indow was intense, but she ignored it.
s a d
molten gold. It was slamming its massive body against the walls of the cell, its roars of agony shakin
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nward, destroying its host. The dragon's huge, sl
he metal walls around the window were beginning to warp and glow. But
nt of raw energy flowed into her, a chaotic flood that her
id nitrogen into the cell. The dragon only became more enrag
surged, consolidating, strengthening. Her plant powers had just broken through to l
strous insectoids. Here? She just had to stand outside a window and somethi
iful, tormented creature. It was part pity, part the raw excite
uld not only regain her former
r-a shockwave that vibrated through the plasteel, through the floor, and into her very bones. But the roar was aimed at the window, no
k, her heart hammer
laration. She ran back to the safety of her
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