Chapter 103-1
Troy
London snarled at Saul and prowled around the small lab, occasionally muttering something under
his breath. Kiana stood protectively on one side of Saul, and I leaned in the doorway, watching it all
unfold.
“Why didn’t you come to me immediately,” London snapped, and I watched as Kiana narrowed her
eyes.
“I had several theories about what the drug might do,” Saul explained, still as calm as ever,
although his eyes were bloodshot red. “But as I’ve explained, I wasn’t sure what these two
compounds were. I was still diving into the research when I fell asleep. It wasn’t until Kiana’s
discovery this morning that made me put it together. Well, put most of it together.”
“This is dangerous and important. You should have notified me at every step!”
“I had planned to give a report this morning.”
London opened his mouth, and Kiana stepped forward. “Enough! It is not Saul’s fault that you got some weird drug, and someone is using it to turn themselves into Mr. Hyde!”
Saul looked up at her in admiration. Kiana caught the look and rolled her eyes. “Don’t look at me
like that. I’m not all that well-read. My father liked to tell me monstrous stories to give me nightmares. Anyway, the point is that you’re accusing the one man who could give you some answers rather than shutting up and listening to his explanations.”
Stopping his pacing short, London sighed and nodded. “You are right. I just never imagined this is
what the drug would do. Please tell us what you know, Saul.”
“You have an extreme upper stimulant combined with an antibiotic. My first immediate thought
was super-soldier. These two chemicals here,” Saul said as he pointed to the screen, “were
experiments several years ago to lengthen the lifespan of canines. Both of them were dismissed fairly quickly for side-effects that included abnormal organ growth and gene mutations. That is what I was researching when I fell asleep. Unfortunately, these two chemicals I’m unfamiliar with. I’ve done a quick search and have come up with nothing on the internet. There are a number of scientific journal databases that I can search, but that will take some time.”
“So, Kiana is right. What we saw today was a wolf shifter.” London bared his fangs. “I want it dead.”
I stepped forward. “I’m not so certain that is your best course of action. I watched the tapes. The creature does nothing to harm anyone. In fact, it went out of its way to avoid populated areas of your territory. It went to an abandoned warehouse to hide, and I suspect she knew that it was
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abandoned.”
“She?” Understanding lit up in London’s eyes. “Eloise.”
“I suspected that as well,” Saul said heavily. “She must have recognized some of these chemicals and thought it might help her sister. At first glance, I might have assumed the same. When she realized we were going to do our own research, she panicked and injected herself with one of the
serums to fast-track her research.”
“Oh,” Kiana breathed. “She didn’t just appear or disappear. She injected herself in the woods. I bet she panicked and was trying to find you, Saul. She went straight for the house, and when that went poorly, she went to hide. The serum must have worn off when she was in the warehouse, and she escaped out the back. There were no cameras back there. It’s good that it wears off in such a
short period of time.”
London turned to Saul. “What happened to the dogs in the study?”
“They died within twelve hours of injection,” Saul said steadily.
“And what will it do to Eloise?”
Saul shook his head. “I couldn’t even make an educated guess. The best-case scenario is that her system scrubs the toxins clean, and she’ll be fine, but there is no telling what these other two compounds will do. Eloise could already be dead.”
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