Chapter 61

left our systems.”

“Still feel like myself!” Herold patted his chest.

“We’ll need to verify that with the experiment logs and testing, but that

fits with what I overheard. I’m sure it will be fine,” Kira assured them,

hoping it was true. She looked at the activity around the room. “I’d see you

out, there’s still a lot to do around here.”

“It’s so different seeing you like this,” her father murmured.

“All I could think about while I was in that cell was that I never should

have tried to change you,” her mother said, tears forming in her eyes.

“You’ve been telling us all this time how you joined the Guard to help

people, but I never wanted to admit that there were bad people out there in

the universe.”

The words caught Kira by surprise. “I always wanted to prevent

something like this from happening on Valta.”

“You’ve stopped any more harm from being done,” her father said. He

paused, seeming to fight back his own tears. “If your gifts can help make