Kiera's POV
I saw it on the other side of the battlefield." Through the smoke and fury and bodies battling all around me, I saw Dr. Chen reach into her coat for something. A syringe. Even at this distance I could see that the liquid inside was glowing with its sickly green light. She passed it to Rylan and muttered something I couldn’t make out over the deafening gunfire and screaming.
But I knew what it was. What it had to be. Wolf essence. Hundreds of prisoners’ worth of stolen concentrated power. Like what GENESIS had done to me when I was a baby.” The very corruption on which they had grown rich.
Rylan stopped moving. He gazed at the syringe as if it were a prayer answered. And maybe it was. He had been deaf-mute in human way for months. Slower. Weaker. Vulnerable in manners that sc
