The Aegis Solution

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Anarchy is craved by the best among us for what it affords — and by the worst for what it allows.

Neve Walker stared out her bedroom window at the darkened landscape, tears streaming down her cheeks. Her hand, almost involuntarily, clenched into a fist, crumpling up the sheet of paper containing her handwritten note, as if a part of her mind wanted to prevent the chaos her words were certain to cause.

Drawing a deep and shuddering breath, she attempted to force at least a degree of calm into her agitated mind. Reluctantly, her eyes shifting away from the window view, Neve looked down and noticed the balled-up note she held tightly. With exaggerated slowness, her fingers opened and she dropped it onto the bed. It was ineluctably a symptom of her mental state that the wad of paper assumed the characteristics of a wrecking ball as it crashed into the quilt which had been handmade for Neve by her mother.

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