Azure wasn't the only color she saw.​

     She also saw the color black. 

​     Katy had never seen such a shade of black before, darker than nothingness, darker than the deepest evil, because that's what Katy knew it to be. She knew it to be the most profound evil she had ever witnessed. It was alive, this blacker than black. It crawled along the body of the everythingness that was The Hive, like a caterpillar on a leaf, and it ate away at the body that was The Hive, the way a cancer ate away at the body of a human, and it had four heads, this darkness, this caterpillar, and the four heads peered out into four different directions, and that's what his name was. That's what he was called.

     This darkness, this evil, this cancer, was called The Fours. 

     It was a cancer, and it ate away at The Hive, at everything that was. 

     It had to be stopped. Katy was more convinced of that than she'd ever been convinced of anything before in her life.  

​     From that moment on, she committed herself, her life, to eradicate the evil that was The Fours. 

     And she wasn't alone in that conviction. She knew that as well. 

​     Her husband, her man, was in the fight as well. 

     Her husband, Adam Forwarder. 

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