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But for the first time in ten years, the bus carried something other than despair.

Kaelen looked at Thorne. “Now what?” breedbus

Thorne looked out at the rain-slicked ruins of the old world, then at the girl who was never cargo, never bait, never a donor. She was a ghost in the machine. And he was tired of being a monster. But for the first time in ten years,

Tonight’s target was a man codenamed "Rook." A former soldier with an immunity profile so robust it bordered on the supernatural. He was hiding in the ruins of the old Osaka Arboretum, a glass coffin of dead trees and mutated fungi. She was a ghost in the machine

Thorne, slumped against the steering wheel, coughed a laugh. “Told you. No one on this bus has a choice. Not even me. Especially not me.”

“Why?” she whispered.