Chapter 505 IVORY “He attacked me,” Killian said. +30 Free Couns “YOU EXIST,” I said. “That’s the whole problem! You exist and you came here and now Kael has put you through a gate wall and I had to stand there being-” I gestured at myself with both hands, indicating

Chapter 504 IVORY The secondary clinic was smaller than the main one. 30 Free Coms This was intentional. I’d designed it that way during the second curse year, when I’d started thinking seriously about the possibility of needing a treatment space that was both functional and separated from the main

Chapter 503 ARIA “I know.” Kael said. MD “That must be-” I started. +30 Free Coins “Strange,” he said. “Yes.” A pause. “I grew up thinking of him as a friend. Someone my own age, around our circle, someone my father seemed to look after in the way that adults

Chapter 502 ARIA +30 Free Coins “The injury,” Kael said, and his voice had the specific quality of a man who was maintaining control over a situation that several different parts of him wanted to handle differently, “can wait while I decide what happens to him.” “The injury can’t wait

Chapter 501 ARIA +30 Free Com I didn’t try to stop him. I understood, in the fraction of a second before it happened, that stopping wasn’t what this moment needed and also that stopping wasn’t something I was equipped to do if Kael had decided to move with the specific

Chapter 500 ARIA +30 Free Coins The commotion reached me before I reached Kael. I’d been cutting through the eastern corridor – the route that went past the secondary garden entrance and came out near the main building’s rear approach, which connected to the corridor where Kael’s office was. It

Chapter 499 ARIA “I know,” I said. “I’ve been figuring out what.” +30 Free Coins *Start with being here,* Silver said. *Stay being here. Let the thing that’s building, build.* She paused. *She didn’t arrange you so you’d be grateful. She arranged you so Kael would survive. But the fact

Chapter 498 ARIA +30 Free Coins *That was real,* Silver said. *Jordan doesn’t say things that aren’t real. It’s professionally inconvenient to him to say things that aren’t real, so he’s developed the habit of only saying things he means.* She paused. *Also, for what it’s worth, he and Nina-*

Chapter 497 ARIA ARIA Silver had opinions about everything. +30 Free Coins This was the thing I was still adjusting to – not the presence of her, which had become warm and familiar and felt more like having a second layer of awareness than having a passenger, but the specific

Chapter 496 KAEL +30 Free Coins She looked at me with the expression that had the twelve years in it – the one that existed before the clinical voice and underneath all the managed versions. “I know what you’re actually asking,” she said. “You’re not asking about the bunker. You’re