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aren’t able to.”
    “ So she needed an outsider to get through Damien?”
    “ Yes.” He looked like he was going to say more, but changed his mind.
    “ Have you ever—” I hesitated to finish my question. I bit the inside of my cheek.
    “ Have I ever what?”
    “ Have you ever seen the Letrell’s? Or talked to them?”
    His lips snapped shut. “Hmmm.”
    “ I am just curious. The Letrell brothers. How many are there? They must keep hidden.”
    “ The Letrell brothers—” he began but then stopped. “You’ll learn all of this later, in your lessons.” I didn’t dare say a word, I was afraid he wouldn’t say anything more. He sighed and began again. “The Letrell brothers are a group of six men and one woman. None of them are actually related except Elizabeth and Dominick.”
    “ And have you ever seen them?”
    “ Damien Letrell created me.” The silence cocooned itself around us. I heard a dog bark and a gun fired in the distance. “So yes, I have met the Letrell brothers.”
    “ All of them?” He must have known who I was really interested in.
    “ All of them,” he confirmed.
    “ What are they like?”
    “ I haven’t seen them in many, many years.”
    “ And you didn’t like them, so you left?”
    “ That’s not exactly how it went.” He was being extremely elusive. Just when I was sure he wouldn’t say anything more, he began talking again. “Damien created me to save me from death.”
    “ Why would he care if you died?”
    “ I think he must have realized I had great potential in the scientific world. He always told me I was born before my time.”
    “ So he wanted to use you,” I concluded.
    “ Yes.”
    “ For what?”
    “ I don’t think that part is important for you to know,” he said with a small frown.
    “ What do you think is important for me to know?” I sensed there was a reason for his talking about them.
    “ Dominick Letrell wasn’t always bad.” He said it without a smile so I knew he wasn’t joking. “The Letrell’s were created by Silango — one of Vladimir’s guards — during a time of warriors in human history. The warriors — the human warriors — did not have respect for human life. If someone got in the way, they killed them without a second thought. And if one of their brothers died, they recruited someone else. Now, I believe that when we change, our human natures come with us, only intensified. Their distaste for anything weaker than they are was just part of the deal for them.”
    “ So you’re saying that it’s their nature to be cruel, so it’s ok?” I couldn’t process what I was hearing.
    “ Damien is the worst of all the brothers,” he continued as if he hadn’t been interrupted. “His arrogance is maddening.”
    “ And Dominick?”
    “ Dominick,” he chuckled lightly, “Dominick wanted to be a hero.” I narrowed my eyes in disbelief. “It’s true. He wanted to use his newfound strength to help humans.”
    “ Well. I think he failed in that,” I pointed out.
    “ So it would seem.” Did I detect sadness in David’s voice?

Chapter Three
     
    Almost as soon as the memory faded, another came to mind. A more recent memory. I had forbid myself to remember it while in the lab because I didn’t want David to know I knew and more importantly I didn’t want Neleh to know anything about Damien’s visit. If she had known, she might have called the whole mission off.
    It didn’t matter that Damien had come to see David. It didn’t matter that David was having sympathetic thoughts. None of that mattered now. I was the only thing that mattered. My actions. And I knew what I had to do. What I would do.
    But now in the solitude of the decam room I allowed myself to pull out the memory of that day and examine it. Why had Damien come to Lexon?
    That day hadn’t started out well. I had to spend four hours in the depo cave. It was part of a month long training session meant to teach me how to shut my brain activity down. A