We meet the charming corporate doctor, as well as a surprise guest!! We learn now what representative they meant for Sylvie!! Honestly, I suspect that such things wouldn't happen in reality, but this corporation is pulling out all the stops just to have one willing test subject for their lab, so I tried to show that here. Let me know what you all think!
And yes, there is supposed to be a lot of italics in this segment. I don't know why DeviantArt is screwing up the tags, they are in there, they just aren't showing up in the text. 
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SHDYCF2 Chapter 14: Friends ForeverCHAPTER FOURTEEN
Friends Forever
Out in the fresh air, she wandered aimlessly for a while, thinking heavily about her nightmares; they'd been getting more frequent now and she worried about what that might mean.
Along her route, she could see the construction cranes standing still and seemingly abandoned, but at a couple of the sites furthest along her route, she could see a handful of pickup trucks and cars in parking areas and construction workers checking over the machines and prepping them for work.
Well, at least one crisis is solved. She thought morosely. With luck, the rest of the sites would be up and running in a couple of days.
She turned up the block to her house, pondering the meaning of dreams when a voice interrupted her thoughts.
"Sylvie! There you are!"
It was Taryn, and she was standing by the front door in her own buckskin costume and idly holding her war-spear in her right hand. Her hair had been done back in a ponytail and on her back she wore a set of sad
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SHDYCF2 Chapter 12: Back Alley MeetingsCHAPTER TWELVE
Back Alley Meetings
Sylvie didn't leave the house for the next two days after the meeting in the office. Instead, she spent much of her time in the garage, thinking hard about her hare-brained scheme, trying to poke holes in it and see it from a different angle. She wanted her plan to be foolproof when she put it into action.
I can't afford any mistakes on this, she thought. If I fail, it means Dad and Ben will lose their jobs, maybe even Mom.
Once more she ran through the idea in her head. She would call Thomas Wolfe and arrange a meeting with him, on the proviso he brought Agent Bengal with him. She couldn't afford to do it in a public place where they could be seen, so she would have them meet her in the alley behind the store that started it all. Somehow, that seemed fitting to her. Most of those buildings still sported scorches and other battle damage from the Riots, but being so far from the town center, it hadn't been touched by the reconstruction yet. That would