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Jess
Jess travelled via the shadowed paths to a place she knew well yet hadn’t paid a visit to for a long time. She was calm. Too calm. She contemplated as she walked, pausing at the home of her target. Knowing the house, Jess appeared in the Solar since she knew it wouldn’t be used at this hour. She smiled bitterly, looking around the room that appeared like it had never changed.
Jess paused as she first heard Alex’s cry, his pain, yet she remained calm even as she could hear Kyle. Her instinct was to go to him, to help and try to drag him back to sanity, yet she had her own job to do; he hadn’t flinched from his. She wouldn’t either. She waited a moment, knowing Kyle was next. She felt and saw it as he stalked up to Lord Vannen. She didn’t even flinch when Kyle snapped the man’s ne
