Kieran nods slowly. "The Seed can do it. But the hive... it’s hungry, Isla. It’s so hungry. If you plug Elara into the Seed to broadcast that signal, the hive will feel her. It will feel the Blueprint. It will try to consume her mind to get to the source."
"Then we shield her," Kade says, his voice dropping to a low, dangerous growl. "Isla and I will merge completely. We will wrap her consciousness in our combined field. The hive will have to chew through two Alphas and an Anchor to get to her."
Kieran looks at Kade, then at me. A faint, proud smile touches his lips. "The mortar and the anchor. Yeah. That might just work." He reaches out, his trembling hand finding Asher’s sleeping head, gently stroking his son’s hair. "But hurry. The hive is already tasting the edges of the magnetospher
