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and Jane took off the ir headgear; they were wearing that came equipped with the lens that Grai had been speaking of, and they handed one to Reven, Jax and Ivint.
    Ivint looked hesitantly at the head piece for a moment before putting it on and looking to the screen with the empty room. Jax and Reven following suit.
    Jax immediately pushed back from the table and reached out a hand in front of her. “Oh my God! What is that?”
    Ivint watched in horror as the eyepiece that fit securely over his left eye allowed him to see clearly what a dark one was. Going by the size of the door in the room, he estimated their height to be at least seven feet.
    Their bodies had no defined shape, consisting of what looked to be nothing more than a thick black smoke. Their eyes were a burnt orange color that seemed to glow from within.
    Covering his left eye, he viewed the room through only the eye not using the lens and again saw an empty room. Uncovering the lens he could clearly see the dozens of dark masses gliding around the room.
    Removing the headgear he handed the set to Banatar, so he could see, Jax and Reven did the same, handing theirs off to others in the room.
    “This is our biggest worry. ” Grai continued when he knew he had the High Councilor’s attention again.
    “ They are most deadly because they cannot be seen without the lens unless you are beast bonded and because of their speed and strength. To answer your question Dreadhawk, this abomination was created by my father.”
    “On yet another planet that he destroyed, he found a species that lived solely underground and in the shadows. He captured a few and used them in his experiments until he created that.” Grai gestured to the screen with the empty room, which they now knew was not truly empty.
    “It looks like what we would call a demon or shadow person.” Jax said quietly, still staring at the screen with the dark ones on it.
    “The dark ones are not the first time that dear daddy has unleashed his experiments on the planet and its people. We have spent years trying to capture and contain them all. Koda and Grai came up with a way to count and track them and their trips to the planet. But hundreds of dangerous ones have escaped since daddy got sick, including some of the dark ones.” Traze interrupted, pulling up what looked to be census data on one of the screens.
    Ivint couldn’t help but think the smart young man kept the screen with the dark ones up as a reminder as to the seriousness of the situation they were in. Although seeing the creatures had been more than enough of a startling realization to all of them.
    “They seem to be a soulless species. They live to inflict pain and death. There is no reasoning with them, although they seem to comprehend languages. The records regarding the original species have long been lost along with their planet, but we’ve not only found a way for others to see them, but to kill them.”
    “All of the ammunition rounds that we supply you with, come embedded with the only chemical, we have found that kills them. Surprisingly enough, its sodium. Your regular, everyday table salt will kill them. Or any projectile through an eye. Knife, bullet… hell even a pencil if you can get it in far enough to pierce their brain.”
    “That is one of many containment cells on my brother’s ships. It is where he keeps most of them, and there are thousands. Because Dagog took the DNA, he can create more, but it takes time for each to mature. Usually six months from birth to what you see, and he can create fifty at a time.” Grai explained, gesturing back to the screen with what appeared to be the empty room.
    “Why?” Reven asked, looking straight at Grai as if to try to judge his honesty by his expression. Grai almost laughed out loud at that. He’d grown up learning very quickly that the wrong look, that showed how you truly felt, could get you laid up with broken bones around his father.
    Grai had become so good at hiding