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2021-02-15 07:14:44Cadence walked into the makeshift hospital room in the tagging center and inhaled sharply, regretting it immediately as the stench of ammonia hit her lungs. Someone had cleaned up pretty intensely recently, and she knew why. The last time she was in this room, it was full of Guardians that had essentially been turned inside out in the throat region. She was glad all of them had recovered, but the memories of that night when Bonnie had attacked, not that long ago, still made her shudder. She still had nightmares about the state Aaron had been in when she’d caught him coming through the glass doors of the reception area.
The scene before her was eerily similar, though none of these patients were bleeding, and none of them were screaming—yet. She was certain that last part wouldn’t last. All four healers were present, as well as Kathy, the Guardian in charge of the tagging center, and Dr. Morrow. Jamie had them huddled in the far corner of the expansive room, l
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Jamie started with Brandon, and as the first shot went in, the teenager drew in a hot breath through clenched teeth. His eyes immediately began to water, and Cadence thought that Cassidy might start to cry. She didn’t, though. She was whispering the same thing over and over again, “You’re all right. You’re all right.” Cadence had heard the same words from their mother every time she’d hurt herself as a young child, and she hoped it served Brandon well, though by the looks of it, he was close to screeching. His dad stepped forward and put his hand on Brandon’s leg, and Jamie put in the second dose. That’s when the violent shaking began, and both Cassidy and Elliott moved to try to still him, but it was doing no good.“Great,” Aurora muttered, but Cadence didn’t get to see what happened next on that end of the room because Meagan began to scream bloody murder the second the first shot went into her arm, and Shane
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No one else had noticed yet, but Cadence knew immediately what her sister had done. There was no point in arguing with her now—she was too out of it to respond. “Sicilia!” she shouted, since the Healer was still standing a few feet away at Christian’s bed. “You got another injection?”“What did she do?” Elliott asked, coming up behind her like a rocket. “What did she do?”“Oh my, God,” Sicilia muttered, coming over as quickly as she could. “Jamie!”“On the shelf, under the table,” he said, pointing, though Cadence realized the only reason he was standing after healing Shane was because Aaron was holding him up.Sicilia crouched down and saw that there were a few extra doses of the serum in a container underneath the table Jamie had used to administer the shots to Brandon and Aurora. She quickly moved to Cassidy, shot in hand, and felt around for a vein. Since C
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