Lion And The Falcon (Furry United Coalition) Read Online Free PDF

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    Apparently , he grasped this because he explained in normal terms she could follow, the jerk. “She was obsessed with doing great things and being recognized for them while at the same time battling with the feeling of being too small. The mastermind overcompensated by being overly aggressive and controlling. In other words, she believed herself smarter than us all, but it wasn’t enough. She also wanted to be big enough to fight her own battles and have people fear her.”
    “So she was looking for a way to change herself into a monster?”
    “Well, I’m pretty sure she didn’t mean for that aspect to happen. Jessie’s still working on pulling up background information on Mastermind. Most of it was obliterated, probably intentionally. The interviews we’ve conducted, though, from classmates who recalled Mastermind growing up, those who survived, that is, gave a picture of someone who hated her shifter side. When it came to the gene pool, she truly got the short end of the stick. And I mean short. She had poor eyesight, little muscle tone, was undersized, and in general the weakest of the weak. A victim of bullying, Mastermind wanted to change that.”
    “By becoming the bully.” Clarice wanted to sneer at the doctor’s empathy and understanding, but he’d obviously placed a lot of time and thought into the motive behind Mastermind’s actions. He also seemed to genuinely want to help those the psycho bitch hurt. It messed with her perception of him as a jerk.
    “Essentially, yes. She didn’t seem to realize that her increased intelligence more than made up for a lack of physical ability. So she experimented from an early age, but never on herself. At least, until the end. It seemed the work I did on reversing the effects of her testing had her stumble along the solution she had looked for all along. I inadvertently gave her the ability to turn on a regressive DNA strand harkening back to our primitive origins.”
    “ Whoa, wait a second. She turned those patients into what, cave men?”
    “Not quite. She found a way to switch on the prehistoric versions of their animals with some added modifications. What she didn’t factor in was that thousands of years ago, brain sizes and capabilities were much smaller.”
    “So in making her animal side stronger, she in essence made herself stupider.”
    “ The loss of cognitive ability and intelligence were an unfortunate result of too much testosterone, possible hypoglycemia, and the increased body mass reducing blood flow to the more logical parts of the brain.”
    She more or less followed his scientific explanation and summarized it. “So when she shifted, all her blood left her brain, kind of like a man when he gets a hard-on. Gotcha.”
    Finally, she flustered the doctor. Clearing his throat, he grabbed his tie and tugged on it. “Um, yes, I guess you could compare it to that.”
    “So she got what she wanted and injected herself. I got that from reading the report about her takedown, but why did she inject everyone else at the safe house ? Wouldn’t it have been more logical for her to keep them as weak victims, people she could dominate?”
    “Keep in mind that at this point Mastermind was no longer entirely rational. From what we could piece together, she expected the patients to thank her for what she did and become her willing minions. Things didn’t quite work out that way.”
    “ According to one of the inmates—”
    “Victims .”
    “ —they laughed at her and she ran off.”
    “ Yes. But we didn’t find out about her injections until much later.”
    “Because she’d managed to hack your computer systems and put the safe house in lockdown mode.” She smirked. “ Outsmarted by a nutsy squirrel. That had to burn, eh, Sylvester? So what did you do?”
    “Me ? Nothing. We were stuck in lockdown in a dark room with no food.” Again, he rolled his wide shoulders and she couldn’t help but notice the size of