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Down the Rabbit Hole

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  Down the Rabbit Hole Unknown   Entering the old train station, I had expected a dark and dingy passageway. Instead, marble floors shimmered like a whole cleaning staff had just gone through them. The haunting fluorescent blue light streamed over me in an arc, painting everything in cold neon. Rabbit kept his grip on my arm. Chess remained at my side. Cappello led the way and whistled as he walked. The tune was lovely, horrifying, and somehow soothing too. It twisted through the tunnel and sounded like a lullaby a mother sang to the dead child in her arms. I sniffed the air. Cookies? The whole place smelled like cookies. Warm ones. Maybe oatmeal and gingerbread. What is this place? Behind us, the door slammed shut and the lock turned with a final click. I was pretty sure we were now sealed in. I forced my body to keep walking and my breath to stay even. Don't show them how scared you are. But my hands had started to shake in the handcuffs. Rab...
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Dragon (Chaos)

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  Chapter 27 Chaos Kenji   I did not know what was happening inside the clinic, but I didn’t need to. The fire on the east side. The emptiness where my guards should have been. The screaming through the walls. None of it had to be explained to me. My body had already done the logic my mind was still catching up to. Kiko. Whatever chaos was happening in there, she had started it. More screaming hit me as my shoes hit the gravel. Reo was already gone—left, low, weapon up, clearing the angle on the front doors before Hiro and I had finished disembarking. Hiro broke right with a blade in his left hand and a sidearm in his right. My hip was empty, my waistband and ankle too. I'd left the mansion in preparation for a romantic dinner and the Burial Ritual. I was now walking into chaos with a Dragon's reputation and nothing else. My men flowed past me in a tight wedge—six of them, all armed, in motion, and fanning into standard breach formation. The lead two st...
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