10. You Were Waiting for It

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The double doors split apart, letting Anna into the briefing room. She paused before going through, noting that the place was packed. Just about every high-ranking Keeper on the planet had gathered in a single room. Most sat at the table, but a few had been relegated to the corners when they ran out of seats. Every one of them looked like a college student, though some were at least twice that age. And others more so. A Justice Keeper’s rapid healing meant that their body aged slowly. If Anna was extremely lucky, she would make it to age sixty, and when she did, she would look pretty much the same as she did now. She recognized a few of them: Roan Belirius with his pale skin and close-cropped black hair, Shanis Rell with her long, beaded braids and a tiny stud in her nose, Ky Lasan with

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