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Serenity

One night, I was lying on the cold metal table, my body wracked with pain, when the door burst open. Through my bleary vision, I saw a group of figures storm into the room, led by Tay. His eyes blazed with fury as he took in the sight of me, strapped down and surrounded by instruments of torture.

Blinking rapidly to realize it was just a dream. The men in lab coats began their work, prodding and injecting me with various substances. Pain radiated through my body, but I gritted my teeth, refusing to give them the satisfaction of hearing me scream.

The men sat around, watching and jotting down notes on a clipboard. A wave of dizziness hit me, and the monitors started to go haywire one after another.

The technician grabbed my wrist and noticed my wounds were not healing.

"Get her some wolf blood and saline solution to rehydrate her. I don't need my lab rat dying before I get the information for Elder Jalen. He called her a hybrid, but she is only a witch. I need to find a way
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