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Acquisition of the subject has been successful We will begin analysis iory is correct, and she is truly close enough to the original to be viable for our purposes, well…

I can only hope she’ll find it in her heart to forgive us for e must do Expect further coe sent by Dr Danika Kione All the chaperones are gone It’s just us kids now, and I don’t kno er the food will last… us kids, and the soldiers outside They don’t let us out of the building, even during the day, even if we pro spray There isn’t any hot water So on I just know that I’m scared Hurry, Alaric Please, hurry

I don’t knoto be long enough, if you don’t hurry

My batteries are dying I er

Hurry

--Taken fro, July 31, 2041

Sixteen

The drive from Berkeley to Seattle takes fourteen hours if you use major roads and avoid serious traffic It takes twenty-three hours if you stick to back routes and frontage roads We split the difference, risking our cover several times in order to eke out a few hundredto the shadows, and made it from city to city in just under nineteen hours

We didn’t stop in Shady Cove Teood a chance that ere being followed--and too good a chance that if we stopped there, we’d never leave again Dr Abbey tried to send us to the Florida hazard zone, and we failed Fine Barring another way to do the sa for a way to evacuate us all to souaranteed to stay mosquito-free

"I hear Alaska’s nice this tie looked up, blinking still-unfa where we could run when this is over Theto be pretty da to her study of the ja to need a tri in front of one eye I resisted the urge to lean over and brush it aside Unless I was having a really crazy day, she’d just vanish if I tried to touch her, and I needed the coain Becks had been asleep in the back since we crossed the border into Washington Without my hallucinatory sister, I would be totally alone, and I wasn’t sure how er my oakefulness would last