I tilted my head as I looked at myself in the mirror. I hadn't gotten too hurt today in training with Carol. In fact, I think I handled myself pretty well. I was getting better.

Stronger.

I chuckled a bit as my fingers traced over a small, pale scar that I had recently gotten. Old me would've freaked and tried to cover it up. But the new me, this new braver girl who'd replaced that scared seventeen year old who I'd once been, she saw these scars as...trophies in a sense. They showed her who she could become.

Who she was becoming.

I glanced up at my long hair, which was currently piled atop my head in a messy bun. I frowned at it. Perhaps I should change it. Maybe not color wise, but style wise. A short look might be cute. Some sort of short style perhaps? A chin length style might look cute.

I shook my head. I could think about that later. Right now I had to go to the missions room. We had things to take care of.

When I arrived, the room was bustling with people talking and exchanging paperwork. None of this phased me however, as I weaved throughout them. This was normal.

I walked through the door at the end of the room and all eyes turned to me. Mrs. Florence looked up at me and down at her watch. "Cutting it a bit close, aren't we, Ms. Lewis?"

I pressed my lips into a thin line as I sat down next to Alex at the round glass table. Victor raised a brow at me curiously in a questioning manner. "I was in the bathroom, geez. You people are so nosy." I whispered to him.

He hit my shoulder playfully and I smiled as Mrs. Florence began talking.

"The last mission was, very successful." She picked up a file that was lying in the center of the table. "The destruction of Dorian's local EH facility is all over the news, which is exactly what we wanted."

Murmurs of approval began to flat up around the table.

I looked over at Alex, Evie, and Victor and smirked. If the plan was working, then that's perfect.

We'd made sure to calculate every possible variable into the equation. The whole idea was to take out Dorian's warehouses, supply shacks, and EH facilities, until he didn't have that many resources left.

Of course, that meant that we needed to train double time to be prepared, which didn't sit well with most of the kids at Eros. So a group of us who were willing to do this was put together and we've been doing the heavy lifting so far. We've taken out a total of four supply shacks, two warehouses, and one EH facility in the past month.

"But," Mrs. Florence began, "We can't celebrate yet. There are plenty more places that we need to take out." She pulled piece of paper out of the file and placed it in the center of the table. "Such as this place."

I looked at the picture and my throat tightened. I could hear my heart pounding in my ears and my mouth go dry. I read the name of the place over and over again just to make sure that I was reading it right.

And unfortunately I was.

I continued to stare at the next place we would be attacking.

The lab where my motherworked as a nurse.