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Which left Rule, a place that felt radioactive

But Finn has Wolf He has Penny and Peter I can’t just let that go "Oh, don’t be crazy, Alex You’re not Bat, the wolfdog’s ears pricked "Seriously?" she asked the animal "Rescue them so they starve, or I have to shoot them to protect myself or, say, Ellie? Tom? Chris? If it came down to a choice between Wolf and To it would be easy, and it feels wrong because Wolf isin-between, just likewhy her eyes stung

Oh, stop feeling sorry for yourself She rested a cheek on her knees Yet Wolf was different now In the beginning, she’d been only food; he’d chowed down on a slice of her shoulder, for God’s sake But then Wolf saved her from Spider, kept her off-menu; rescued her froht Finn’s men before he’d made her leave him behind and save herself Wolf cared about her It was in what he did, and his scent

"And I care what happens to hi the ooze of a tear and a weird hollowness in her chest So, fine, all right, she was evil and maybe brainwashed, and this definitely wasn’t lovewas it? No, of course not, but she cared, okay? Shoot her

But Wolf still has to eat It wasn’t as if Wolf was suddenly going to go vegan Yes, he cared for her and she was pretty sure he would never hurt her now That kind of aht also extend to the people she cared about For Wolf to live, though, he had to eat

"I don’t knohat’s right," she said to the wolfdog "Maybe it’s sun to Tom’s head, or Chris’s" Wasn’t that exactly what Toed? Tom had killed Ji like that? At the last second, if there was no other choice, she probably would "But maybe we’re not there yet And what if Wolf can co I can’t just leave hiht" Pennyshe wasn’t sure what to do with her But there was Peter, too, caught in between like her and Wolf Whatever Finn had done to hio to Rule? See if she picked up Wolf ’s scent? It was insane, but with the wolfdog, sheas she didn’t succuure out?" she asked the wolfdog "What that whole thing was Like the rabbed by Finn, then jerkedfor the ride I hopped First I land behind one set of eyes and then a whole bunch of other eyes, and then I juht about that "Knohat it re’s look--no, really, tellcocked its head Which part?

"How the brain works and cells talk to each other" By that point in bio, the monster had shown itself, too, and she became somewhat of an expert "The brain’s an electrical syste," she said to the wolfdog She was starting to get a little excited now; felt she was onto so "The brain has tons of synapses, like more than the stars in the Milky Way Even an electrical iether the way it should So the impulse has to hop It ju an axon, and that speeds everything up"

So what if Finn was doing that? "Like an out-of-body thing A signal leapfrogging froht line Too inefficient" And wouldn’t the signal decay? She thought that was right; depending on the frequency, a radio signal could peter out fast, and hadn’t cell toorked the sanals soht about how the push-push go-go got stronger when Finn was closer Like roaot part of it, like a cell phone getting only a bar or two instead of four or five And then what had happened? Theher in, on its own?

"Or maybe theeach word "Unless you disabled a computer’s Wi-Fi, it would autorab" With the exception of Wolf, for whom the monster seeed into a Changed’s th of an ee "But the monster can’t always be receptive, because it doesn’t happen all the ti in a French class when all you speak is Russian You hear sounds, but that’s not the sa anyway Whatever I figure out is fronal, nothing to snag the monster’s interest? Like lunch in the cafeteriathere’s always the buzz of conversation, but unless you make an effort you don’t pay attention, because you’re either not interested or you’re focused on so your friends, for example, or someone’s called your name from across the roo, really, even though you register the noise

So, a regular conversation between Changed wasn’t strong or interesting enough to goose the monster? Even when she did hop-- that time she’d dropped behind Spider’s eyes, for example, way back at the lake house after Spider had killed poor little Jack--it wasn’t like eavesdropping She was never pulled into a wider conversation Because I really don’t understand the language? Or " She also had this really cru that she had to experience the ured it out If she followed Finn, she’d be asking for trouble, because if she was right about proxi closer to Finn and his weird, altered Changed would increase the chances of her being detected or pulled in, or losing herself in the red stores" Which was also different Wolf and Spider, Leopard, Acnenone showed any awareness of her or the monster at all But Finn had How could he do that?<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>