3 Works by semisweetbat
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“You will answer to your serial number or the callsign given to you. You are weapons, nothing more and nothing less. However,” she pauses, “you are not alone. Our operatives are never alone.” She grins.
“Each of you will be paired with another, more experienced operative,” Kalina continues. “You will be inseparable. You will eat together, live together.”
Her voice echoes, suddenly, within the confines of Adaine’s inner ear. She doesn’t need to look around to know that every other graduate in line with her is hearing the same thing.
You will kill together.
“Every firearm needs a trigger,” Kalina says. Her eyes lock with Adaine’s. “You are those triggers. It’s time you met your other halves.”
Or, Adaine joins the Fallinese military academy. Her memories of Aelwyn hitch a ride. What about the real Aelwyn?
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- Part 1 of trigger fingers
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In efforts to curb rates of infection, Kalina reads, dragging one finger along the faded words, conservationists and researchers have launched a large-scale effort to quarantine intermediate hosts such as snails and frogs. In doing so, they aim to prevent intermediate hosts from infecting definitive hosts.
The hope is that overall infection rates will decline, and the parasitic species afflicting these animals will slowly die out.
Kalina thinks about the taste of spit and blood—dirty coins, tinged with mint—and slams the textbook closed.
A snapshot of Pok and Kalina's time working together. Pok lays down an ultimatum. Kalina makes macaroni and cheese.
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“You look like shit,” he says.
Avery laughs at that, a choked-out, bubbling thing. “You think I don’t know that?”
“Think you’re bleeding on my carpet,” Nacht says, popping the lid of the first aid kit. “C’mere.”
Avery comes to Nacht after a fight.