By midnight, she was barely able to keep her head upright as the moon climbed higher into the sky. She heard the booming voice of her uncle, but that was the last thing she remembered as sleep took her against her will.
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Dair looked around the small space where he found himself standing. He’d gone from the warmth and inviting atmosphere of Serenity’s room, to a cold, stark cell. The bars caught his eyes, and then he turned and saw the bed where a man, clothed in a white jumpsuit, lay. He was on his back with his arms up above his head and his hands folded under his head as a pillow. For a man who was locked in a tiny room, surrounded by concrete and steel, he seemed extremely content even in sleep.
Was this really his charge? He frowned as he continued to stare at the man. What could t
