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[sup]________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup][/COLOR][img]https://i.imgur.com/7n3pcBv.png[/img][/CENTER][indent][sub][COLOR=silver][B]Location:[/B][/COLOR] [I]The Alexandria Foundation[/I] - [I]Atlantic Ocean[/I][/sub][sup][right][COLOR=silver][b]Dance Monkey #4.039:[/b][/COLOR] [I]Bleed Into Me[/I][/right][/sup][/indent][COLOR=dimgray][SUP][sub]____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________[/sub][/SUP][/COLOR][INDENT][sub][color=silver][B]Interaction(s):[/B][/COLOR] [I]None[/I][/sub][SUP][RIGHT][COLOR=silver][b]Previously:[/b][/COLOR] [I]Welcome to the Masquerade[/I][/right][/SUP]
[INDENT]The needle was cold as it went into the back of her neck. 

But Summer had learned not to flinch. 

The restraints around her wrist chafed against her skin, irritating existing abrasions. She could feel her mind beginning to expand, seeking out those beyond this compound. A mother in New York, plagued by guilt for leaving her child to go to work. A teenager in Wyoming, weighed down by the constant cravings for another hit of methamphetamines.  An officer in San Francisco still burdened by the murder that cost Makaio Tawhiri his life.

And then, there was the campus. The island to the North West filled with many young persons of mass destruction.

But today Daedalus’ obsession bore on one. The winged one who was currently drowning any memories of him beneath a steady diet of alcohol. Daedalus smiled wickedly at the read out of Summer’s brain, blood beginning to drip from her nostril from the strain. A momentary scold was followed by another frigid prick as he released a new drop of [i]her[/i] into Summer. 

Her pupils dilated with the surge and soon she was viewing those who remained of their other experiment. They were content for the time being, the burden of truth lifted from their minds. And then there was the one who had come to her for help all those years ago, now frustrated and pent up, abandoned and alone. 

She could have sealed his pain, made him forget the ones who left. But that was not Daedalus’ plan, and Summer’s will was of little power. 

And then she sensed [i]her[/i], the one who got away. 

Daedalus began to practically foam at the mouth as Summer’s mind touched the fractured one, web of memories disjointed and separated from one another. Her abilities were redundant in a mind so fragmented. 

[color=ffffff]“I want them both back.”[/color] Daedalus finally fumed, breaking the silence. Summer felt pain travel through her skull, like a blast of lightning before it sent her spine rigid. Another prick in her neck and her eyes snapped open again. More blood spilling from her nose as some many different sensations shot through her body.

She felt [i]her[/i] power in places she never expected, it wasn’t hard to understand why Daedalus was obsessed with her. The rawness, it far exceeded even what she had felt as a teenager standing beside Vanessa Bordeaux. 

Summer missed her friend.

A rare, raw, human thought managed to bubble through. A thought from before Summer had become a plaything for megalomaniacs and psychopaths. Delirium was setting in now and Summer could barely hold a connection. Daedalus knew better than to waste a dose at this point and Summer was allowed to sleep.

But not before she saw Daedalus approach another.

A horrific screech filled the room and then, everything went black.[/INDENT][/INDENT][/COLOR]