The Killing Mode
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"We are who we are; we do what we do based upon the knowledge that is given to us, since birth."
Sloane River leads a life like no other - she is a professional assassin. It's not only her job, it's her life. She kills because killing is her way of living. Because that is what they thought her. That killing is a way of living.
For most of her life, she believed the world was narrowed down to the orphanage she was in since she was brought into this world. At the age of fifteen, she was taken from the only place she ever knew and presented into the real world - or at least a part of it. Sloane was thought all the wrong things in the belief that they were the right and normal ones.
Now, at the age of twenty-five, a part of her starts to wonder if she has it all wrong... so she decides to take control. Tired of getting the same missions over and over again, she asks for more.
And perhaps that "more" is the key for her to get out of her current mode:
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