arpet. The mechanical voice in her he

gy dissipating. Do

ie whispered

w, crackling energy was being siphoned directly from Aloys's unco

g her bones vanished. Her stamina fu

terface materialized

sis Profic

asic Healing At

d at the terrifying General pinned to the wall no

ggressive angles of his face. He was devastatingly handsome, bu

shed against a hard lump in his inner pocket. She pulled out a heavy sil

ys was unconscious, his psychic defenses completely shattered by the feral state and the neurotoxin. Jolie pu

ciousness into the sto

ter cores glowed with raw power, sitting next to

credit cards and a handful of the brightest, highest-

ck military-grade stealth communicator from his

are. With a flick of her wrist, she commanded the vines to adjust his posture, l

er chip from her hairpin-a rare, black-market tool she had secretly purchased just days ago with her meager savings,

s basic firewall and accessed the security mainframe. She isolated the fo

ed the data. Every digital trace of her and Cat

the hotel's cleaning staff. She stripped off her torn dress, pulled on the uniform,

clock. Three h

service corridor attached to the suite and prie

as a rappelling rope. She slid down the dark, narrow shaft, dropping dozens

ed out the back loading dock and in

l procurement was idling near the dum

ed the accelerator. The shuttle shot out of the alley with a scr

e lower city, her heart rate finally began to set

stolen from Aloys let out a deafening, high-pitche

alt in the middle of an empty intersection. She stared

mandated partner has been confirmed. Name: Keanu Rober

ext instantly. Keanu Robertson. The most feared assassin in the Shadow Se

her knuckles turned white. "Son of a