CHAPTER EIGHT Kevin followed Purest Xan as the alien led him through the spire once more. Curiously, he still found himself thinking about Chloe. Mostly, he found himself wondering how he had ever felt anything about her. Feeling things for someone felt like such a weakness, such an aberration, that it was hard to believe he had ever been like this. “The longer you are with the Hive, the harder such foolishness will be to believe,” Purest Xan said as they moved through the spire’s levels. “Residue of a former life is common for those who are brought into the Hive, but it will fade.” “That’s good to hear,” Kevin said. For a moment he’d been worried that these memories of feelings would be with him forever. He was pretty sure that memories of someone who was soon to be reshaped for the go