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reached out to stop her, but he was
too slow. She ran across the foyer of the building and pulled the
door open. Then she grabbed Paul and spun him around. She tried to
position him behind her, so that she was the once facing the who
were moving into position.
    “ We're unarmed!” Kait shouted as loud as
she could. She could feel the strange tingling sensation between
her eyes and she knew she was using the vox dei . The police would hear her words and
they would believe her. Throwing her hands above her head, she
tried to surrender. “We don't want to hurt anyone! We just want to
go home.”
    A few of the police officers near the edge
of the street lowered their weapons. It was working. Surely, Thomas
would not approve of this strategy. He had no left her much choice.
She didn't want to push Paul away. Paul was the closest thing she
had in this world to a friend, even if she barely knew him.
    “ What are you doing?” Paul muttered. “Is this about the
Mayor? I thought you said you killed him, but he was on a news
broadcast just a few minutes ago.”
    Kait turned and narrowed her eyes. “What am I doing?” she said.
“What are you doing here? Did you follow me?”
    “ You just left me at the restaurant. I had to see where you
were going.”
    I had to see. Kait wanted to be sick. She'd compelled Paul to
come after her. Just because she wanted to see him, just because
she liked him...
    Kait grabbed his arm. “You're in danger,”
she said. “I don't have time to explain, but it should be really
fucking obvious if you just open your eyes.”
    “ The police?”
    “ They aren't here to protect you. They're after
me.”
    Paul's eyes went wide. It was like he never
thought to consider that the cops were a danger to him. He'd walked
through their blockade without a fear in the world. “They...
They're after you?”
    “ I told you: I shot the mayor.”
    “ You said that you killed the
mayor.”
    “ I also said that I didn't have time to explain.”
    Behind Kait, the police officers readied their weapons
again. They were confused. They only had a vague idea of why they
surrounded One Metropolitan Square, and Kait's use of the vox dei left them
ill-at-ease.
    “ Stop right there!” a voice shouted. “Don't move or we'll
shoot.”
    Kait spun around and faced them. “You don't want to shoot,”
she hissed. Her voice cut through the night and buried itself deep
in the minds of the police officers surrounding the building. It
was the first time she'd ever intentionally used the vox dei to command someone, and she was shocked by
the result.
    Almost in unison, all of the cops lowered
their weapons. It was like they were hypnotized. Kait had them
completely under her control. All she had to do was speak.
    Turning her attention back to Paul, she tried to reign in
her seductive power. She didn't want to control him in the same
way. He was her friend. He deserved better than that. Still, she needed him to
leave so that she could handle this without risking his
life.
    “ Go!” Kait hissed. “Get out of here, while you still have a
chance.”
    Paul gulped. Sweat was beading up around his forehead. Kait
couldn't tell whether she'd used the vox dei on him, or if he was merely frightened by
the situation. Either way, he wanted to leave One Metropolitan
Square. Unfortunately, it was not so simple.
    A trembling voice came from the darkness
beyond the police cars. Several of the streetlights across the
street were burnt out, allowing the police chief to hide under the
cover of night He stepped forward, onto the road, and smiled at
Kait.
    Grant L'Enfant might have been a handsome
man, if not for his monstrous eye. The left side of his face was
permanently swollen, like a healing injury. His eye was pure white,
save for a few crimson blood vessels running along the surface.
    As he spoke, Kait could feel his presence in her head. He
was attempting to control her. Just like she'd accidentally done to
Thomas, he tried to manipulate her