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The silence that stretched between us was the loudest I had ever heard I opened the bottle of water and tossed the pills intothethat had to be done, and so I was doing it; that was all The silence continued, Gregory waiting to see hoould respond, h all the possible ways that sentence could have ended

None of theory didn’t answer "With Shaun what?" I repeated

"Off the grid," said Gregory He took the empty bottle from my hand "He and the rest of your old news site dropped off the radar following Tropical Stor event I frowned "Were they in the area? Are they s, all of the reports elsewhere in the country, but it’s hard, with as little data as we have"

"So what, they’re thinking they can tell round?" I scoffed "That’s not going to happen"

"No They’re thinking they can finish running their tests on you, de to the investors just how stable a clone can be, and then they can deco to play the part they ask it to play"

The chill continued to uncurl, spreading to cover my entire body "What part is that?"

"Bait" I couldn’t see Gregory’s expression with the light shining so brightly behind hi I needed to know "They’re going to put the new Georgia on the air, and they’re going to use it to do the one thing they couldn’t do on their own"

"They’re going to use her to lure Shaun in," I finished, in a whisper

"They’ll use her to do ia, because this isn’t a tiical profiles since your death have been… disturbing, to say the least"

"Disturbing how? Cutting up children and old ladies disturbing, or not showering anyo of the idea that you’ll come back someday That’s part of what let the investors sell the idea that you would have ory admitted

I took a deep breath The painkillers hadn’t had ti everything seem a little more distant, and hence a little easier to deal with "Well, all right I guess that e, doesn’t it?"

"Yes, it does," said Gregory--and now he sounded sad, and deeply concerned "There’s just one proble to do that, do you?"

"No We don’t"

"Well" I openedto be fun"

BOOK III