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Steeled Spies #1: The Towers Electric

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Steeled Spies #1: The Towers Electric

Will Agent Steel Meet a Shocking End in Empire Square?

Jacob Calta
Apr 28, 2023
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In an instant; chaos.

The quiet alcove she had tried so desperately to create, to give their revolution a chance to beat back the electric tyranny they struggled under, had turned into a war zone all its own. Brother pitted against brother in a surreal cacophony of fighting and bloodshed. And through the proverbial smoke of the midnight brawl stood the one hound she had just let into the hive. He must have been the cause, how could he not be? She was too open, too unguarded. She had let a lion wrap himself in fleece and enter her flock a lamb.

For Lucille Devenreux, the mysterious gray “Jack Flash” was the rabble-rouser. He was the one who had upset what could have been, at last, the true freedom for all of Haven. He was to blame for all of this madness. If only she could find the words to rally her people once more. But alas, she felt the verbiage clog her throat, and try as she might, they refused to leap into the air for her, bringing the legions back to heel. Darker and darker she saw the world, choked by the failure of the one thing she knew best, as the life drained from her body…

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