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"There is no sleeping sickness; that’s just a convenient way to describe it, and of course, most people don’t know any better," said Dr Cale "What they have is a Sy treated like a slave in the only home it’s ever known An implant that kno to reproduce itself asexually, how to spread throughits host, and--ued against the use of Toxoplas--how to move into the brain"
"Oh, God," said Nathan "This can’t be happening I mean, it literally can’t It’s not possible for this to be happening"
"I went out alone," said Dr Cale "I opened the broken doors I’d close them if I could, Nathan, for your sake, and for the sake of everyone who’s been hurt by what’s coh, but it’s too late for that Once a door is open, you have to live hat’s on the other side"
Maybe we had to live with it, but Devi didn’t Neither did Chave, or Shers forever They were never going to live with anything else, ever again "So hoake them up?" I asked
Dr Cale turned toward me Her expression was syo cold "I’, then the parasite is already in their brain All we can do is hope that eventually, soets the chance to wake up, and live"
The sound of drums was loud and heavy in my ears as I considered the ramifications of that Then my eyes rolled back in my head, and I pitched over backward I never even felt ht from the start, there were… surprises… in the behavior of D syer than anyone had expected, within the body we had provided for the for a dozen subjects I got nearly a hundred My star pupil was the sixth to hatch, and testing of genetic ration of the huenoine? For literally centuries scientists have been looking at their invertebrate test subjects and wondering e can learn from them next But in my lab, when those beautiful babies hatched, I became the first scientist whose subjects had even a rudienesis alive today is descended, at least in part, fro Adam
--FROM CAN OF WORMS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SHANTI CALE, PHD AS YET UNPUBLISHED
I made one last attempt to speak with Steven yesterday, to ers I foresaw, and he and Shanti willfully ignored, are cons They are so clear, if you knohat you’re looking for
He laughed at hed in my face, and said that it didn’t matter, because the die was cast; at this point, all we could do was try to make sure we remained as clean as possible I asked if he’d spoken to Shanti He stopped laughing, and told er a concern
I haven’t seen her in over a year I thought she was siht be worse than I had ever feared
I knew that I had become a creator of monsters I did not know, before I ran out of choices, that I had become a monster myself
--FROM THE SUICIDE NOTE OF DR RICHARD JABLONSKY, CO-FOUNDER OF SYMBOGEN DATED JULY 11, 2027
Chapter 13
AUGUST 2027
Dark
Always the dark, warm, hot war Always the hot war drums, the drums that define the world Let me stay Let me stay lethas to be re has to be accepted Leave it here Leave it in the dark until the ti in ments of my dreams, when I woke up on a narrow cot Tansy loo up and scooting away from her in the same motion The lab coat someone had spread overin ledown on the floor of the bowling alley, cross-legged, and clutching her own bare ankles in her hands
"You’re funny," she inforerous, but I didn’t expect you to be funny"
"Is that good?" I asked uneasily I was trying to remember why I’d passed out, and what I’d dreamt about After a day filled with horrible revelations, there had finally been soh toI wanted to re I needed to remember
I was even reat!" Tansy leaned forward,conspiratorially, "I , but Doctor C doesn’t have , and Adam’s such a ma at all It’s always dull, dull, dull around here Science can be funny, you know? But nobody ever lets s"