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in the basement durin

pecifically reques

ector had said that morning, her

the academy wh

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some with curiosity, others

ly being forced to humi

ly across from h

er eye several times,

e seeing pity in t

ds that unite us as pack," Dr

, hunt together. Remember, a pack is o

s glanced meani

sage wa

formation," Dr.

cle, students

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mained

find the wolf inside her, the w

rom her skin, her bones resh

of times over the years, a

hin

" Dr. Voss s

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find nineteen pairs of w

ooked

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form, he wa

spered, her cheeks

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stirred in

che of failure, bu

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onger, spreading throu

began t

ose, ready to res

was

all

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ming a wolf, someth

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f growing large

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was looking down at the circ

a nearby window sh

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ultiple wolf heads, each one

o absorb light, making her look like a cr

es backed away

ds before Zara collapsed back into h

damage w

ne had

d forward, her

resti

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normal shift,"

and was staring at Zara with an exp

gnit

o the academy," Dr

, you'll co

casting nervous glances over the

efully, "perhaps I coul

ary, Mr. Storm," the

iate medical attention. I'

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edical evaluation after any

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, like he was trying to solve

's north tower, a sterile white cor

room at the very end, on

dn't look like anything from

red in stran

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like a scanning device with the same bl

, indicating a chair in

gh every instinct

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" Dr. Voss said, activating

me off here when I was fourteen.

do you remember about

fro

a small town. My parents worked a

was t

strangely fuzzy, like look

covered in the same strange symbo

rmation today. H

t," Zara

s becoming something

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terrified trai

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re you

canning device, and blue

result are often

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owing, it wasn't what th

Voss murmured, stu

c markers ar

oes tha

you're far more special

or the first time since Zara had k

eal education is

k what that meant, t

y a security guard who wa

be in here!" the

ht," Dr. Voss

was just

t looking at

the symbols on the screens, at the strange

this is," he

went ve

your pa

ers, and Zara saw somet

alle

ognit

is is," Kai repeated,

long have you known

the room seemed t

carefully, "I think you sho

learly co

ara's chair, and she caught tha

tarting to rem

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and she saw something

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talk," he

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lease escort

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dy rhythm, and with each pulse, data st

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