Someone's killing the seekers.

Up until now, I've been focused on protecting the gifted, dental tiles.

But now there's something else.

And I think it might be more dangerous than anything I've dealt with so far.

To any gifted people out there, I need your help.

The splinter has a harvester, I need your help.

The splinter has a harvester.

I need your help finding it before it kills us all.

This is Spines. I'm The first one was a researcher supervising a group of apprentices.

He'd worked with Miranda in the past, so she got the call when his body was found.

He died while at his day job, at an infectious disease research center.

One of his apprentices got a look at the body before the cops shut down the crime scene,

and they knew it wasn't a natural death. So they called Miranda, and she sent me and Shan.

It wasn't easy getting in there.

Local cops and feds and reporters were swarming everywhere.

I could have teleported in, but there were people in the room with the body,

and slowing time would only hide me so long.

After we'd been watching the building a while, I turned to Shan. Any tricks up your sleeve that'll help us out here? They smiled. Let me see what I can do. They held up their hand,

and a deep blue flower bloomed out of their palm. They waited until a cop passed by close to us,

and then they opened the flower.

Little flecks of iridescent pollen blew away and landed on the cop's hair.

Shan's eyes rolled back in their head.

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