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The people quickly stripped off their heavy, dirty coats. They dropped them into a large pile on the concrete floor. They shivered in the cold air.Rick raised his glowing green hands. "Water Qi," Rick whispered softly. "Cleansing Mist."A gentle, warm, beautiful blue-green mist poured out of Rick's hands. It floated over the thirty refugees. The mist touched their skin. It washed away the dirt. But more importantly, the magical water washed away the invisible tracking spores that Isaac's guards had placed on their arms and necks.The invisible spores fell to the floor, mixing with the pile of dirty clothes."You are clean," Rick told the crowd. "But the clothes are still broadcasting our location. We cannot leave them here like this. The lattice will find them."Rick turned to Forge. "Forge," Rick said. "You know the deep tunnels. You know the pipes. Is there a way deeper underground? A place where the city scanners cannot reach?"Forge nodded slowly. "Yes. Behind the old water pump
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The glowing hologram of Auditor Isaac was gone. The fake doctor lay unconscious on the cold concrete floor. The fifty refugees held their breath.The clock was ticking.Rick had exactly fifty-nine minutes to surrender. If he did not walk out of the dark tunnels and give himself to the cruel city guards, Isaac would turn off the giant ventilation fans. The city would flood the entire junkyard with toxic, burning gas. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people would choke to death.Rick looked at his hands. They were covered in dirt and dried blood. He slowly reached up and untied the heavy, dark gray coat from his shoulders. The coat fell to the floor with a soft thud."What are you doing?" Luna asked. Her voice shook with pure panic. She grabbed his arm with her one strong hand."I am taking off my coat," Rick said. His voice was completely empty. It sounded like a man who was already dead. "I have to walk out there. I have to surrender.""No!" Luna cried loudly. Tears poured down her
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Rick stood tall. He gripped his staff. He knew Isaac could not see him or hear him right now. This was a pre-recorded message, triggered to activate a few hours after the raid."You are probably wondering why I let you escape with those thirty sick scavengers," Isaac's hologram smiled softly. He adjusted his thin silver glasses. "You think you won a great victory tonight. You think you saved them from the incinerator."Isaac folded his clean white hands on the glass desk. "I did not want to kill them, Rick," Isaac explained calmly. "I needed them to be rescued. I needed you to touch them. I needed you to bring them back to your secret, hidden rat's nest."Rick felt a cold drop of sweat slide down his back."You see," Isaac continued, his voice echoing in the damp tunnel. "I knew I could not track you. You are a ghost. You hide your magic too well. But sick, terrified, ordinary people? They are very easy to track."Luna gasped. She looked at the thirty new refugees sitting in the train
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The warm water felt wonderful. Rick sighed. He opened his tired brown eyes and looked at her. "Thank you," Rick whispered."You are a fool, you know that?" Luna smiled gently, wiping a streak of dirt from his cheek. "You walked right into the smartest man's trap.""I know," Rick said. He frowned. He looked down at his own hands. "Isaac is a genius. He knew exactly what I would do. He knew I could not stand in the shadows and watch a little girl die. He used my vow against me as a weapon."Luna stopped washing his face. She let her hand rest on his knee. She looked at him with very serious, very deep brown eyes."I have been thinking about Auditor Isaac," Luna said quietly. The noise of the busy clinic covered her soft voice. No one else could hear them."He is evil," Rick stated flatly. "He is a greedy, heartless monster. He wants to put my magic in a bottle and sell it to the rich. He is worse than Yuren."Luna shook her head slowly. "No, Rick," Luna said. "That is the scary part. He
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Rick stood in the center of the crater he had made. The brilliant, pure emerald green light of his Earth Qi slowly faded away. The bright glow pulled back into his skin. The alley became dark again, lit only by the weak, orange light of the fake doctor’s small lantern.The fifty Hunter-Killers were completely destroyed. Their heavy silver armor was crushed against the rusted iron walls of the alley. Sparks of red electricity popped and died in the muddy puddles.Overseer Graves lay in the dirt. He was groaning in pain. He was not dead, but his body was badly broken. The shockwave of pure healing magic had knocked him unconscious for a moment.Rick breathed heavily. His chest moved up and down. He felt incredibly weak. He had used a massive amount of his true, pure magic. But his soul felt clean. The dark, ugly gray sludge was gone. He was the Ghost Doctor again.Rick looked at the thirty innocent people. They were kneeling in the mud. The burning red electric chains that had tied the
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Rick opened his eyes. They were completely flat and gray. He stepped back from the edge of the rusted bridge. He gripped his staff. He turned around. He was going to walk away into the dark. He was going to let them die to protect the greater good. It was the hardest, most terrible choice he had ever made.Down in the alley, Overseer Graves smiled. Graves dropped the screaming little girl into the mud next to her bleeding father. "Chain the brat," Graves ordered a silver guard.Then, Overseer Graves did something very strange. He did not look at the prisoners. He did not look at the fake doctor on the ground.Overseer Graves slowly tilted his head back. He looked straight up. He looked directly up at the tall, dark, rusted bridge hanging hundreds of feet in the air. He looked exactly at the spot where Rick was hiding in the shadows."I know you are up there, anomaly," Graves called out loudly. His cruel voice echoed through the deep scrap canyon, carrying perfectly up to the high bri
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