Piling evil upon evil upon evil with no end in sight. Corrupting and destroying everything and everyone you touched along the way..."Then came the vis...ons of punishment, as I sought to use fear and intimidation to control the group, and finally, death. One by one, in graphic detail, the deaths of everyone who had died either by my hand or on my orders. My two girlfriends from college, Carmen and Monique; the father brutally beaten to death in the Clark County jail; the scene of Carl Andrews. I remember watchingit on the news."Malcolm nodded, and winced in pain. Quartz looked at him and scowled."Don't move much, Sergeant. I broke your wrist, dislocated your shoulder,and broke your collarbone and four ribs. You got off easy, for someonewho was trying to execute me." My team?" he asked, suddenly concerned."All dead," Jet replied, her expression turning hard and cold. "And so isyour ride. Now who ordered this fiasco, and why was it turned over toyou." My orders came from my Captain,. And then near the back of her mind, hating Tsela and the captain and wondering if Idris regretted forfeiting his powers to protect her. That train of thought led to her wondering if she could do the same. If Brynn herself offered to give up her powers, would they give him back? Could she do that? Would she, might be the better question, and Brynn had a vision of herself standing as a sacrificial lamb in front of an angry dragon. As she fell back on the bed, her mind filling with flying dragons. Fine, fine!"Mark walked back to Ted."What are you planning to say, Mark?" I'm ... I'm ... Hell, I don't know. But this is getting a little too crazy. It's like they think we're wrapped around their little fingers or something." Dude, aren't we wrapped around their little fingers?" Well ... good point. Maybe we are. But we don't have to let them know that, do we?"At that moment the girls' door opened and they emerged, first Amber, then Stephanie. They had indeed been getting ready. They both had.