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By:Azure Boone & Kenra Daniels

Kassern turned his attention to Francis and the others, huddled at the far end of the room. Robert slumped in the middle of the group, completely still as if lying in ambush for prey. Except there was no prey and the diamond eyes were dull and listless.

The Tyler kid was with them, easily included in the group. Zool had said he'd come because of the kid. Or had he meant for him? No one had a chance to find out before the silent warrior was called back to emergency business. The only information they obtained was the single grunt the mysterious Onyx Brother gave after touching the boy on the head. And who would know by that whether the boy was good news or bad news or something in between?

Lesedi nodded at the diamond warrior on the floor. "What is happening?"

Kassern wished he knew. "We're trying to figure that out. He stumbled in and collapsed and now we can't find Kassie." Kassern looked around, sudden fear striking him at the thought of his own wife. He relaxed when he saw her talking quietly with Francis.

"Doc, would you mind having a look at the creatures we seized from Kharef? Something spooked them earlier and they went berserk, attacked a human." Maybe that was tied to this.

The doc nodded once. Kassern looked around and signaled Troy over.

"I'll take him," Dorn said. "I don't trust them."

It was a relief to actually know his aquamarine Brother shared his feelings. Maybe that meant he wasn't being overly emotional about it. He'd wondered if his feelings for Karly were fucking with his judgment. "Good idea, Brother." Or maybe Dorn was as bad off as he was now. Wouldn't that be the shit?





Chapter Twenty-





Five



"What is this?" the farechtera asked.

Dorn peered into the vault-like container that had been created for holding the creatures. "It's…well, sort of like an incubator." He didn't feel right calling it the prison hospital he'd thought of it as. They'd never had to transport unstable and dangerous beings before, at least not in a manner that ensured a safe arrival for the prisoner, so it had taken some time to construct what seemed to be a satisfactory containment method. At least, according to Peggy, who had designed and built it, along with Sam, who looked over her shoulder the entire time. It was disconcerting that both were the beasts' mothers. Peggy their adoptive, and Sam their biological. But Peggy knew their capabilities better than anyone else.

The farechtera, or 'doc', as Kassern referred to him, angled his head, clearly incredulous at Dorn's unclear description. He stared through one of the vertical transparent slats designed to view the creatures easily. "Incubator, you say."

Dorn realized the doc likely wasn't familiar with the term since he dealt with supernatural species almost exclusively. He mentally fished for something to liken it to, something the doc could fathom. "A protected and controlled environment normally used to allow infant creatures to continue to develop safely outside the natural apparatus for the purpose. At any rate, the comparison doesn't really work in this instance. We needed a way to move the creatures and ensure both their safety and security simultaneously. This is what Peggy came up with." He regarded the doc's expected perplexity.

"Ah yes. Peggy. The sort of adoptive mother. I will need to speak with her eventually."

Honestly, the idea of those creatures in that container reminded Dorn of one of his urban dictionary words of the day. Puppy Bukakke. To bury someone's face in a pile of canine love and affection. He shook his head at all the maligned analogies he'd recently formed, alarmed at the appalling rate of decline his angelic nature was taking. Decomposing before his flawless eyes.

"They were in The Darkness for a short time, following the attack. We relocated them here hoping to aid in whatever healing they needed."

"And…what…are they, exactly?"

"Scocerith's conspiratorial posterity." The doc's puzzlement prompted further explanation. "They are Un-Allied, but with a twist. They were developed by Socerith's workers, designed to further the Enemy's cause. These, however, were abducted prior to birth and reared by the Archangel Toren's Gefrengea."

"Peggy."

"Yes. And they've demonstrated no aggressive tendencies or evil proclivities until they attempted to kill a human boy."

The doc paused only briefly before continuing his slow walk along the circumference of the housing, staring at the creatures that sat about like lethargic children.

"Whatever hostility took them is nowhere in the vicinity. Do you mind if I have a closer look?"

"Please." Dorn was beyond eager to have the farechtera learn what afflicted the creatures, beyond the obvious probability of hereditary evil seeping into their subconscious.