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"I don’t know that they’re any worse than they were yesterday, but I think they’re about to get pretty bad, yeah" I couldn’t stop thinking about Mahir’s casual iven his wife shit since the day they got married, but that didn’tto be here with us Hell, he’d been risking everything since the day he agreed to coree of faith that he was putting in us, because I really wasn’t sure anye It’s too late for any of us to turn back now
"Got that right," Ia drink before asking, "Doc, what do you know about viral parasitis Mahir said before he went upstairs to crash--the virus acts like a parasite in people with reservoir conditions, and that teaches their bodies how to cope with it better I’ure you’ll be able to translate for us e sit down for the big htfully "It’s not a common theory, but I’ve heard it before It basically says that the virus can change its behavior, go fro a strict predator to a sort of symbiotic parasite"
"Isn’t that what both source viruses were originally supposed to do?" asked Maggie, turning on the stove She began pouring dollops of batter onto the griddle, filling the roo pancakes "We were supposed to catch them and then keep them forever, like… I don’t knoeird immortal hamsters that cured cancer"
"Only these ha people already know about, is there any reason for so it? Viral parasitism, I ood reason for so viral parasitisht" I leaned back in ie make pancakes Kelly went quiet, a speculative expression on her face I could allass of water and sat down across fro for the pancakes to be ready
Mahir’s arrival changed everything We’d been treading water, writing our reports, studying theto happen, because so since passed the point where we could back out safely--e and I decided it would be a good idea to go out for the Ryn I don’t know--but that didn’t a to see ould happen next Now that Mahir ith us, it was tiain
I wasn’t ready I don’t think any of us were, or really could be I just knew that it was too dae died
Maybe it was too late before that, and we couldn’t see it I don’t know
Mahir hadn’t come downstairs by the time Alaric and Becks showed up The security systerowl of the van’s engine becaie had plenty of time to clear away the mess froo wake our guest," she said, starting to ruure he’s likely to hit someone if he’s startled, and he’d probably feel bad if he hit a girl"
I couldn’t argue with that--it was too true--and so I gruntedup the stairs to the room that had been mine until just a few hours before The door was shut, and there were no signs ofbefore I actually brought it down in a knock
"He looked exhausted," I said
We’re all exhausted, George replied He needs to explain things sooner or later
As soon as he explained all the way, any chance we had of postponing the future would be gone It would end when he opened his bag and pulled out the files he hadn’t shownit back, because there never is when the truth gets involved "Can’t it be later?" The plea in e has always known me better than I know myself I used to do the same favor for her
It already is, she said, quietly
She was right, and because she was right, I brought uest room door "Yo, Mahir Alaric and Becks are here with dinner"
There was no response
I knocked again, harder this time "Mahir! We can sleep e’re dead,how bleak he’d looked, how deep the circles under his eyes had been If we can sleep e’re dead…
Stop it You’re just freaking yourself out, and that’s not going to do anyone any good Knock again
I didn’t knock: I hammered "Mahir!"
The door opened Mahir was still dressed, his clothes nosince passed the point where a little thing like a nap was going to do anything to hurt the hi already?" he asked Exhaustion thickened his accent, ible "I’d murder for a cuppa"