Over the next few days, Evelyn regained her strength. Her memories returned slowly. Some things were crystal clear. Other moments from her captivity were blurred or missing entirely. Dr. Whitford said that was normal after prolonged corruption.
But what worried me was how much knowledge my mother still possessed about Covenant operations.
"I was held in six different facilities over twenty years," she told me and Owen during a strategic briefing. "Used as a weapon, yes, but also as an experimental subject. They were trying to understand how to extract healing abilities and transfer them to other wolves."
"Did they succeed?" I asked.
"Partially. They managed to create temporary healing in test subjects. Lasted maybe a few hours before fading. But the process usually killed the original
