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They found him in New York, in the subways, but the string of deaths stretched out of the city, well into the mountains on the other side of the state. They'd all had the same markers; a body partially devoured, the marks of small, even teeth and short, thick claws. Nothing matched any species on record, though. The first dozen had been put down to some unidentified animal, which had already attracted the attention of the organization. But then one had been killed with a knife, a knife stolen from one of the previous kills. And they got more sophisticated as they moved east. And then they began in New York.

It was a chance report, a woman riding the subway claimed she had looked out her window at a junction in the tunnels and seen a young man, looking up at the train from a gap by the tracks, his face illuminated by the train's lights and smeared with blood. The Habakkuk Foundation made sure to get there before the police.

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It was the first time in his life that Some had been restrained. They'd caught him with a loop on the end of a stick, and then there had been a sting, and he'd collapsed into blackness. When he woke, he was bound, tied down to a table with the sharp reek and cold touch of metal, and the lights above were too bright for him to open his eyes. He pulled against them, making a worried noise deep in his throat.

"H-hello?"

Date: 2013-06-26 03:15 am (UTC)
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"What I want is to know what you are, and the circumstances surrounding your creation." Letting him know who they are, by contrast, is considerably lower on her list of priorities - a reasonably intelligent specimen, like he seems to be, might conclude (and rightly so) that being captured by an organization like the Foundation is most likely to result in their life suddenly becoming very short and painful. Those are hardly the ideal conditions under which to conduct an interrogation - especially when she still hasn't decided what she's going to do to Some yet.

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