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"Thank you for trying" He reached across the table to take h forsocial norms, remember? You tell me I don’t have to support you to the best ofup for dates any you to do my laundry"

A small smile creased the corners of his e"

"Or working as biotech interns I have just described my sister, only substitute ‘dinner’ for ‘dates’ "

"Good, because I don’t want to date your sister, and I don’t want to think about you dating your sister, either"

I burst out laughing, earning lance from the people at the next table over "Now that would definitely be going against social norms"

"Very true" Nathan released my hand and looked at the remains of our lunch Neither of us had cleaned our plates "Are you going to eat anything else?"

With how upsetto keep dohat I’d already eaten "No," I said "Can we go for a walk?"

"Sure," he said, and signaled for the check

I leaned back in my chair and tried to s to throw up at anythe feeling of roiling unease aside, I took Nathan’s hand, and alked together out into the early afternoon sun

Every six months or so, so you" and "these are the things they don’t want you to know," and you knohat? Not one of them has produced verifiable scientific evidence that the Intestinal Bodyguard™ is harmful in humans Not one! Don’t you think that if there were soative side effect, we’d have seen it by now? I don’t --we’re all human at SymboGen, we make mistakes--but even if you’re into conspiracy theories, you’ve got to admit that it’s pretty far-fetched to believe that we could somehow suppress every possible bad effect of the Intestinal Bodyguard™ Millions of people have our implants Millions That’s not a small number, and those people talk We couldn’t keep them all quiet if anted to

And ould ant to? Look at the blogs, look at the social ies, no more missed medication--heck, souard against hangovers Now, that’s not a feature that ere necessarily ai for, and it’s not in the brochure, but if your iht ahead What’s the harm?