{"id":259236,"date":"2026-07-13T16:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/edge-of-mercy-allie-therin\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:51:27","slug":"edge-of-mercy-allie-therin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/edge-of-mercy-allie-therin\/","title":{"rendered":"Edge Of Mercy – Allie Therin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d \u201cI was at my parents\u2019 house yesterday when my dad got a call.\u201d Gretel swallowed hard. \u201cI heard part of the conversation. This person wanted to do dinner, but asked my dad to meet him at AMI first.\u201d Jamey\u2019s eyebrows went up. \u201cLieutenant Parson dismissed it,\u201d Gretel said, deeply bitter. \u201cTold me it was a coincidence.\u201d Jamey poured boiling water into two mugs.<\/p>\n

Parson had been her supervising officer when she\u2019d been a detective on the force. Empathy- related investigations were a federal, not state affair, and shrouded in secrecy to boot; Parson very well might be under orders not to let the SPD follow any leads. But Jamey wasn\u2019t on the force anymore. She could follow any damn lead she wanted. \u201cDo you know who called your dad?\u201d she asked as she set a mug in front of Gretel and took the seat next to her with the other mug.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I do.\u201d She wrapped her hands around the mug. \u201cBut no one is ever going to believe me.\u201d Jamey leaned in. \u201cI will believe you,\u201d she promised quietly. \u201cYou could tell me it was the president and I\u2019d still believe you.\u201d Gretel let out a shaky breath. There was a look of despair in her eyes that Jamey recognized all too well from other victims who believed justice was beyond their reach. \u201cMy dad mentioned coming out of retirement and called the person Charles. I assumed he was talking to Charles Stone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jamey\u2019s eyes widened. \u201cCharles Stone as in Stone Solutions? Cedrick Stone\u2019s famous dad?\u201d Gretel nodded. \u201cMy parents are friends with all of them.\u201d She swallowed. \u201cWere friends.\u201d \u201cJesus,\u201d Jamey muttered. But the more she thought it over, the more it made a twisted kind of sense. Who else besides a Stone would have enough power and resources to pull something like this off?<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, like I said, I believe you. Did you tell the SPD you suspect Charles Stone?\u201d \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d Gretel reached for one of the herbal teas.<\/p>\n

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. . . Nowhere is the danger of empathy more greatly illustrated than by the recent events in British Columbia: the sabotage and jailbreak at our Polaris Empathic Research Institute; the violent deaths of so many of Dr. Nichols\u2019s valuable scientists; the Vancouver ambush on Empath Initiative director Holt Traynor, who remains missing; and the subsequent raid on one of Stone Solutions\u2019 Canadian offices. There are those who would claim these actions illustrate only the danger of corrupted empathy; who would protest the three empaths who carried out these actions were previously pacifists incapable of harm.<\/p>\n

But we must remember that every pacifist empath is a ticking bomb with the potential to transform into a superhuman sadist, like the three corrupted empaths we now must catch. The events in British Columbia will not go unmet. We cannot tell the public the entire truth about empaths, but we will secure its unwavering support for our institution nonetheless. The empaths have their paranormal abilities, but we have opposed them since the emergence and are stronger and far more dangerous than they will ever anticipate.<\/p>\n

They will find themselves cornered, captured and contained. To that end, I\u2019m coming out of retirement to handle this personally. \u2014Excerpt from a confidential internal memo at Stone Solutions If Evan Grayson had been asked if it\u2019d be hard to catch three corrupted empaths who\u2019d raised hell in BC, he would\u2019ve said no. Didn\u2019t matter that one of the empaths was his little brother, or that another had been a sunshiny therapist, or that the third looked real cute in an oversized hoodie. Grayson was the Dead Man: an elite anti-empathy defense without emotion or attachment; a perfectly engineered empath hunter, backed by the world\u2019s most powerful anti-empathy institutions and uniquely capable of finding and neutralizing any empath.<\/p>\n

Or at least, he was supposed to be. But maybe that third empath had scrambled Grayson\u2019s good sense in the back seat of a truck and left his dick running the show, because here he was, days later, fully unable to stop shit. \u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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