CADE: REAPER-Patriots: Book Thirty-Four by Mary Kennedy

Author:Mary Kennedy [Kennedy, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-15T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Cass watched her sister and the others working at the table. Carrie had always been the dancer of the three girls, elegant, petite, pure magic on stage. Celeste was always the brainiac engineer. Cass was good at painting and assessing art, but she was never quite sure it was her passion. Watching her big sister, she was intrigued, wanting to know more about what they were looking at.

“I don’t know,” said Paige, shaking her head. “Why put the mercury in the tips of the tentacles?”

“I know it’s poor at conducting heat, but I seem to remember from college chemistry that it’s a conductor of electricity. Could it help with the electrical currents in the body?” asked Cass.

The others all turned, staring at Cass. Her sister smiled, looking back down at the device. Paige grinned at her, nodding.

“Maybe,” said Paige. “That’s a great thought, Cass. I mean, it wouldn’t be a conductor in the sense of traditional electricity in the body, but if it were helping to control electric impulses in the body, maybe that’s what they were doing.”

“Hey, science nerds,” smirked Cade. “I may have found something. There’s an article on a dark website, conspiracies, everything, but this is a published article about a Korean military doctor. A few years ago, he was implanting their soldiers with a device that would stop the amygdala from functioning. In the brain, they were having issues with it basically short-circuiting.”

“Wait, why would they not want the amygdala to fire?” asked Cass.

“The amygdala causes our fight or flight to kick in,” said Bree. Ashley nodded. “If they didn’t have the ability to distinguish between danger and safety, they would always just charge in without thought.”

“Holy shit,” muttered Franco.

“Exactly,” said Cade. “There were so many complications with this, the doctor had to abandon the experiment. Everything from brain hemorrhaging, excessive vomiting, diarrhea, pains in the extremities. All of it. But. It worked. The soldiers’ amygdalae were not firing.”

“They were trying to make us follow orders despite the risks,” said Franco. He stood, staring out the window of the hotel room. “If we had followed the repeated orders given to us in the field, we would have sent half the team with the kids, and the other half would have gone after the rebels, despite the numbers.”

“I think that’s exactly what they were trying to do,” said Cade.

“Did the Koreans have any episodes of suicide?” asked Cass. Cade nodded, frowning at the room of people.

“More than a dozen of the one hundred and twenty men tested. A dozen before someone finally stopped them.”

“Who gave you the orders?” asked Trevor. Franco frowned, confused by the question. “The orders to go after the rebels even after you found the kids and determined that the intel was bad. Who kept giving you orders to continue?”

“General Pitre of USAC.”

“USAC?” asked Carrie. Cade nodded.

“U.S. African Command. His name is William Pitre. He’s been there since Bodhi and I were there.” Cade looked at his brother, Bodhi, standing from the big sofa.

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