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complete the deal. Do you want the medicine or not?”
    “I want the medicine, but I need some guarantees. Your cure could kill me.”
    Sometimes he believed that would be a better fate for him than living with the almost daily pain he experienced, which seemed to grow worse each year.
    “There are no guarantees in life. However, we have no reason to kill you. You are more valuable to us alive. As a double agent, you will serve us well.”
    While betraying Xylon, she might as well have said. Suddenly, he felt sick. “What about the power?”
    “Once you master your new ability as a Sonic, you will be able to explode a man’s head with the sound of your voice, should that be your desire.”
    He nodded. The promise of power was seductive and too tempting to resist. “This power does not require a certain genetic code?”
    “A simple implant only. In the back of your throat. Using specific pitches in your voice, you’ll be able to control sound waves—to soothe or to destroy. It’s still experimental, but shows high promise.”
    Experimental? And an implant. “I wasn’t told the power was experimental.”
    She shrugged. “The choice is yours. Do you wish to proceed?”
    Technical powers could be sabotaged, defeated, controlled from the outside. Still, the lure remained strong. Finally, he nodded. He needed to appear cooperative.
    “We have Healers standing by. After you’re re-initiated to serve us, the implant will be surgically placed. You will, of course, provide us with the information we require before the implant is placed.”
    “Of course. That was the agreement.”
    The woman stepped out of the shadows. Long black hair, tied and pulled away from her face, hung down to her waist. Her pale skin looked as smooth as Mesci stone.
    Striking blue eyes, filled with intelligence, pierced him. Though many years since he’d last seen her, she still was one of the most beautiful women he’d ever known. “Frost.”
    Inwardly, he cringed, as soon as the name passed his lips. That wasn’t her true name, just the nickname Torque had bestowed upon her years ago, given her personality.
    “Don’t worry, Kam. I’ve embraced the title. The image that name invokes has served me well, especially with my enemies. I’ve been using Frost since I started working for my…my new leader, Daegal.”
    She’d been about to say, “since I started working for myself,” before she’d caught herself. He was almost certain of it. He knew Daegal was in control here, but he wouldn’t be surprise to learn that Frost also had her own agenda. A gleam of evil shone in the woman’s eyes, so evil that he actually felt sorry for her. Well, almost. He’d need to be extra careful around her.
    “Hand your weapon over to me, Kam.”
    “Weapon?”
    “Please don’t insult me. You’ll never get through my security system with a firearm in tow. I’m sure the weapon carries a Xylon marker.”
    Yes. Of course. She was right. Knowing it useless to protest, he pulled out his disruptor and handed the weapon to her, butt first.
    “Is the re-initiation process difficult?” he asked, as she pulled the weapon’s power-pack from the chamber. He’d participated in a re-initiation before, though on Xylon, and he wasn’t the one being initiated at the time, but a female. The rite, sexual in nature as most of their ceremonies, played out differently for male initiates than females. The sexual fever that followed, however, was the same.
    The Dome’s ceremonies weren’t well documented, so he wasn’t certain what to expect. Would he lose his sanity? He was so far gone already that he wouldn’t be surprised, though he’d taken protective steps.
    She placed a hand on his arm. “There is no need to worry. Our Initiation Ceremony is very similar to the Rite of the Lair.”
    He nodded, knowing that was far from the truth. Her eyes revealed the lie.
    Regardless, he knew his path. “Very well then. I’m ready.” He intended to do what had to be