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green projects. The Shadow Bringers on Ikar were still developing their skills and every man counted in those early days. Splitting their manpower to shield the Protheans had made the situation at Midnight more difficult.
    There was the potential that he could have had a child by now and his mate was asleep in his bed, too exhausted to do anything to even try to start one. He smiled ruefully. He finally had her in his home and she was dead to the world. It was just his luck that the woman he had never dreamed to hope for, snored. He thanked his lucky stars that sleep was not something that the Shadow Bringers required.
     
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    Sobi’s muscles were tight when she woke. She had been so tired that she woke in the same position she went to sleep in.
    She held back a groan as she sat up. Aloss was nowhere to be found and he had not joined her in bed. The brightness in the room made her feel like it was morning.
    She threw back the covers and stood up, crossed the room and entered the living area. Still no sign of him, so she started to look through the open doorways. There was a wide balcony that looked out over a huge garden. The garden itself caught her attention. It was thriving under the shadowed dome. “Oh, my.”
    “Our efforts have been successful. We have designed plants that will take all the light we can give them, and we are hoping that they will bear fruit soon.” Aloss came out of the kitchen wiping his hands on a towel; his clothing was no longer the formal uniform he had been wearing the night before but a loose, soft tunic and tight trousers instead.
    “You have found a way to grow plants on the surface?” She couldn’t help but stare at him; he was somehow more alive in Midnight City than he was at her home.
    “We have. What do you know about our efforts to green the surface of Ikar?”
    “Nothing.”
    “Then, come and see what clothing has been designed for you by our bots, based on your activities in Shadow City.”
    Sobi cocked her head. “There are clothes for me? I thought I would have to wait until my stuff got here.”
    “No, now that you are here, you are an Anvin bride. You will have clothing that suits your social station so that all Shadow Bringers will know who you are on sight.”
    She followed him off the balcony and into a room off the bedroom. It was a dressing room, and a large closet was a third filled with clothing that was unmistakably Aloss’s and a third filled with feminine versions of the same dark outfits. A row of boots made her raise her brows. “The clothing might be a close fit, but how did they make the shoes?”
    “They measured the shoes from last night and brought these out of stores. They have been making clothing for the Prothean brides from the moment we had the materials to do so. They used average body shapes and kept busy.”
    He made it seem like the bots were excited to have women around but that had to be an exaggeration.
    She wandered over to the hanging clothing and pulled out a jumpsuit that was cinched in at the waist but otherwise looked comfortable. Sobi draped it over her arm and grabbed a pair of boots that would match. “Which way to the lav?”
    A quick tour of the facilities and a sonic blast later, she dressed and emerged feeling rather hungry but otherwise energized. There was something about a new outfit that always made her feel taller. The suit had two icons on the shoulders. One was the Anvin mark and the other appeared to be a rank marking.
    Aloss was in the kitchen, humming to himself and pulling something out of a heating unit. “We only have rations for now, but I believe that this is suitable for your palate.”
    He put a breakfast-type meal on the counter and got her some utensils.
    She ate, drank water and asked, “What is on the agenda for today?”
    “A tour of the city, an explanation of our world building and a description of what the Shadow Bringers actually are and how we train.”
    She sipped at her water and