Taking a deep breath he told her the story of what he'd become. "I was abducted by feds when I was fourteen and used as part of an experiment called Project Azrael. They were trying to make what they called perfect soldiers. What they were making were cold, emotionless assassins. We were grafted with enhanced agility, reflexes, speed and strength. They had control collars on all of us, of a hundred and sixty children abducted, only seventy six survived the experiments. I'm the only known Azrael left. A group of us were on a prison transport when we flee through a minor magnetic field. It was enough to fry our control collars and before we could escape a cruiser attacked us. I survived by hiding among a pile of bodies and slowing my breathing. My vital signs didn't register and they sent the bodies to a lightly guarded research facility. I got up, killed the scientists and guards and escaped."
"There are times when I have flashbacks and times when the lights go out altogether. I have had instances where I get irritable and the worst part is Nikolai was born with the same genetic crap done to me. At his size the effects on him are much stronger than with me, and he also doesn't have the mental trauma I do because he was born with the effects."