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"I had been a bit wild in my youth," said Dr Cale, as cal to drink "I didn’t always follow lab protocols, I didn’t always check ot hurt I thought that all of that was behind enesis project, I found out my tracks hadn’t been covered quite as well as I always assulanced to Nathan, alar this?
With absolute cal his tuht my look, a ist to his lips "I knew she wasn’t dead," he said "I even knew she was Shanti Cale, and that she’d disappeared after leaving Syet into contact with eitherwe didn’t"
"I knew it still wasn’t safe," said Dr Cale "I alanted to reach out to you, but there wasn’t a way to do it without endangering you"
"Aren’t you endangering hi around you endangers people, aren’t you endangering erous to contact Nathan," said Dr Cale "Sy you, and that meant I couldn’t reach out to him until I knehether you could be trusted And before you ask the next question, no No, Nathan didn’t knoatching you; no, he didn’t get involved with you because I asked him to He did it because he is a reat deal of security footage, and I approve of the way you treat my son"
There was a clank behind me I turned to see that Nathan had set his tu his face with his hand "Mo e involved with an a assistant in one ofa little unorthodox runs in the family" Dr Cale’s reserinned
"Can we get back to the point, please?" asked Nathan, sounding put-upon
"Where e? Oh, yes--Sy secret project More precisely, Steven was black entirely honest, he didn’t have to blackmail very hard I lovedof for h to refuse Maybe that makes me a bad person It certainly made me a bad o’ I was always the one ent out alone, no ot No matter how ain"
"Okay," I said slowly "This is all really interesting, and sort of weird, since we’re in an old bowling alley in the , but what does this have to do with you calling me here? What is it you know that we need to know?"
" ‘If you ask the questions…’ " quoted Dr Cale, a warning note in her voice
"We want to know," said Nathan
She nodded "All right If you’re sure Followherself around before rolling toward the door We followed Dr Cale out of the office and back into thealley
She talked as wewhat the various lab stations were for and what the various lab-coated people were doing there So to keep other people’s research fro research of their own, so caught up in their little worlds that they barely noticed us passing One wo sweet nothings at it as she pressed down on the top of its triangular head
Dr Cale caughtat the snake handler and said, "That’s Dr Hoff in reptile parasites She’s been with me for about seven years now The snake’s name is Kyle He’s an Australian coastal taipan She’s been doing soan ra about the neurotoxic properties of taipan venom and its effects on various types of tapewor as hard as I could--but it was like the days right after I first woke up in the hospital, when everyone around , and I couldn’t understand a word
Dr Cale led us to the far lane, where a light box the length of the wall had been set up, allowing for the display of a variety of X-ray films She stopped near the middle of the lane There was nowhere for Nathan andat her expectantly
"I was, in a very real way, the reason the Intestinal Bodyguard was able to succeed Steven was s direction The official literature says that he started work on Diphyllobothriuoensis, a species of tapeworm that preferentially parasitizes fish"
"But the Intestinal Bodyguard is based off… what you just said," I protested I recognized the nah, even if I couldn’t pronounce it correctly "They used a fish tapeworm"