Tempest’s Legacy
“I asked numbly from my corner of the booth.
“Nope. Unless they have moonshine,” was Anyan’s only response.
“Then I’ll take whisky, too. Make it a double. If they won’t sell you the bottle.”
The barghest gave me a grim smile then went to get our drinks, leaving me with Caleb, Daoud, Ryu, and Julian.
We were spread out in one of our fancy hotel’s giant, cushy booths, but we all looked like we’d just come from a funeral.
Each of the women had told a similar story of horror, and the healers who att...ended them had been able to fill in blanks that they were as yet incapable of revealing. Besides rapes and beatings, each of the women had endured different series of bizarre, Dr. Mengele–type experiments. One woman had her ovaries replaced with a human’s; one had her womb removed and replaced with a bizarre balloonlike contraption; yet another had a human fetus implanted inside her. We didn’t even bother to conjecture about what had happened to the pregnant human. By the time they were rescued, most of the women’s “surgeries”MoreLess
“Nope. Unless they have moonshine,” was Anyan’s only response.
“Then I’ll take whisky, too. Make it a double. If they won’t sell you the bottle.”
The barghest gave me a grim smile then went to get our drinks, leaving me with Caleb, Daoud, Ryu, and Julian.
We were spread out in one of our fancy hotel’s giant, cushy booths, but we all looked like we’d just come from a funeral.
Each of the women had told a similar story of horror, and the healers who att...ended them had been able to fill in blanks that they were as yet incapable of revealing. Besides rapes and beatings, each of the women had endured different series of bizarre, Dr. Mengele–type experiments. One woman had her ovaries replaced with a human’s; one had her womb removed and replaced with a bizarre balloonlike contraption; yet another had a human fetus implanted inside her. We didn’t even bother to conjecture about what had happened to the pregnant human. By the time they were rescued, most of the women’s “surgeries”MoreLess
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