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finishing off his JD with his free hand. “A part of me has been dying to go wild. Nothing has compared to my first kill. I’m curious to relive it.”
    Clint passed a beer to Darwin and Tim before seating himself. “I’ve never really done that before. What’s it like?”
    Tim broke in, “My first kill could never be recreated. When I killed those assholes from school with my bare, changing hands, I’d only had the gift in me for an hour. I’d never changed before. I got to learn about the gift as I killed. It was a real mind fuck!”
    Darwin smiled, “don’t you want to look your prey in the eyes in your human form, tell them they have ten minutes to run as fast as they can? Part of me is developing a keen sense for the fear that humans emit. If they know what I am and what I will do to them—that fear will build inside them as they run. The smell will be secreted throughout the woods and there will be nowhere for them to hide. Doesn’t that thought excite you?”
    Clint shrugged in a noncommittal way before drinking his beer, “sounds like a lot of work for a meal, but I guess it does have an appealing side to it.”
    â€œI think our sophisticated existence, the breeding program, the hospital, the homeless shelters…that’s all great. We have food to sustain us, but at the same time we’ve restrained our inner animal. I want to explore it—let it out.”
    â€œHear, hear!” Tim said, raising his beer for a quick toast before bringing the conversation back to sophistication. “How was the meeting with Riverview?”
    â€œIt was a meeting.” Darwin started thinking about his earlier lie. “The Director of Riverview doesn’t want New Haven to have the facility. Fortunately for us, he was overruled. The hospital will be relocating here very soon. It sounded like the faster we can take the patients the happier Riverview would be.” Darwin paused a moment then pressed on. “Can I ask your opinion on something?”
    Tim and Clint both nodded their heads in unison. Settling in to their chairs with a beer in hand, the two waited for their friend and master to open up. They knew if Darwin was asking for an opinion, the matter had to be a serious one.
    â€œI have a nagging feeling that something is coming for us. I can’t put my finger on it.” Darwin again opted to keep his secret. If they knew the voices of the underworld had spoken to him they would realize the threat was serious, but Darwin wasn’t there yet.
    â€œOf course they’re coming for us!” Tim said. “We made a lot of people disappear. There’s always going to be people nosing around looking for loved ones who just disappeared. We’ve been having that happen for months already. Our stock answers are still working and we still control the investigative bodies. Sure, the time may come where we are forced to infiltrate federal agencies to help keep the secret, but the plan worked! Okay, we could be more proactive and monitor the internet; quash rumors before they begin-but I’m not aware of anything big causing us problems, are you?”
    Darwin looked back to the lithograph for answers but saw the same thing he always did.
    War.
    Darwin sighed. “We took away thousands of people and locked them up underground so they could be our food. We got away with it. I don’t think what’s coming has much to do with that. I don’t know, Tim, I just don’t know.”
    â€œWhatever made us is protecting us, and will continue to protect us,” Tim said confidently.
    â€œI agree. I feel like nothing we do is stoppable. Every time a problem comes up we deal with it swiftly.” Clint replied.
    Darwin looked at his friend, “that’s just the point, Clint. We might be getting complacent. If the outside world became aware of our existence there’s no telling
what
kind of problems we might
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