Jeffries stuck his small bright light back into the front pocket of his lab coat and curtly nodded with minimal interest in her pleas for her sister, despite knowing full well how connected Eden and Ellie were.

"What do you remember?" Ellie's entire body trembled. She pulled herself into a more upright position. She flexed her toes to assure herself that she had full feeling in her body, but she wasn't in the same room as Eden. She could feel it. Without Eden, she was incomplete in every way.

"Zulia..." she couldn't take more flashes of the horrific vision that had invaded her former innocence at the park.

Zulia was Ellie's friend. She wasn't a Six, but she had always been kind to both of the girls. She used to help Ellie with class work when Ellie strugg...

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