Chapter 77: Preparation Part 5

Clarence smiles at him. "Very good - we'll see if Jeb knows anything. Jeb? You awake?"

"Hmm?" His eyes open groggily, looking around.

"Wake up, buddy," Clarence slaps him on the back. "What do you think?"

"Please repeat the question," Jeb mumbles, rubbing his eyes with his palms.

"The people you've been taking. The," I hesitate at the word, saying it gently for Griffin's sake, "experiments out in the woods - can you fix them?"

Blinking, Jeb wakes up, surprised to see me. "Fallon."

"Answer the question."

He takes a moment to consider it, keeping our eye contact locked. Finally, he shakes his head. "No. They cannot be fixed. Not in the way you'd want them to be. They are attempts at a whole - at something better than themselves, so to fix them would be to complete them, which is being perfected in the laboratories."

"Not anymore," Jace says.

"Nope..." Harrison echoes behind him, "all done."