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originally intended special formatting on February 27th, 2005,
now that the site accommodates it better.  Path Of Seduction
Chapter One  The puppet's friends would all die. They tangled
the strings on the blond boy's mind and enabled him to elude the
near total control that kept the other clones slavishly
obedient. True, the boy's already disordered mind could still be
manipulated, but the comparative effort that this took made the
process seem...inefficient. This, coupled with the fact that the
boy's friends would in all likelihood become directly
antagonistic once the plan was revealed made this Avalanche a
liability, one which Mother would not tolerate. The blond's
friends would die and the one called Aeris Gainsborough would be
the first to go.  The silver haired man pressed his palm to the
cold steel of the cell door and, focusi