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A slow, horrifying picture was beginning to coether in e was silent, nore the conclusionsWhatever those conclusions were, she was drawing them, too, and she didn’t like them any more than I did My round outside of Memphis, where snipers opened fire on our convoy, where Buffy died… where the CDC took us in for the very first time

"Dr Abbey?" I asked She looked toward e a favorite student to coht answer before the final bell "What do the reservoir conditions really do? Do you know?"

"Of course I do" She s her drink aside as she stood "Come on I think it’s time I took you for a tour of the lab You need to understand e’re doing here"

"I’ve always liked a good perversion of science," said Becks At least one of us was reht "Let’s take the tour"

Yes, said George, sounding oddly subdued Let’s

Kelly didn’t say anything Maybe that was for the best

We left ourdrinks behind and followed Dr Abbey from her cra at the rear of the group, claws ainst the bare linoleuet that he was there, or that he was--all protests aside--o full amplification He could kill us all before anyone had a chance to reach for a weapon

But he won’t, said George, picking up on the thought I don’t think Dr Abbey’s quite that crazy

"Says the one with the least to lose," I muttered

Dr Abbey looked back at me, brows raised "What was that?"

I offered her a sunny s to my dead sister She lives insidego zoreed, see about carrying on conversations with a dead person It eirdly jarring "Even if Joe could amplify--which he can’t, after all the e’ve done--I wouldn’t let him do it outside a sealed rooe"

"Like these?" Alaric stopped, frowning at a tank that contained about a dozen things that looked like guinea pigs with too aze and let out a shriek, ju backward

"Goliath tarantulas," said Dr Abbey "Average weight of the specienerations to breed thee"