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"He dropped a jarful of leeches once," announced Tansy blithely as she walked back out of the shadows I ed not to jump Barely "It exploded, ker-smash, and then there were leeches everywhere It was like Leech-a-palooza in the lab that day This one tech got a leech inside her nose"
"By ‘got’ do you rinned "You’re starting to catch on So, like, can you walk and stuff? Because Doctor C says if you can walk, I should bring you over to her private lab That’s where she’s got Nathan She’s showing hi I said you aveon a dirt hill with the resident socially maladjusted possibly-a-tapewora return trip to Sy
"Whatever Suit yourself" Tansy rolled her eyes in exaggerated disgust "Adam, Doctor C says to tell you it’s tio to your room so you can take them"
"Yes, Tansy," said Adam He looked at me shyly as he stood "It’s really nice to finally h that you’ll come back sometime I think Mo, walking quickly into the shadows
"I guess he’s sweet on you, too," said Tansy She sounded faintly disgusted "Like you’re all that just because you’re all living in the world, doing stuff without supervision Whatever Like that’s so impressive Come on, I’ll take you to Doctor C"
"Thank you," I said--both because it was the right thing to say and because I was a little bit afraid that if Tansy thought I was being rude to her, she’d stab ularly carried scalpels around just for stabbing people "I’ up so much of your time"
"Whatever," she said, for the third ti important if you weren’t here"
"Sure you would," I said "You’d be sledding"
Tansy blinked at that Then, slowly, she grinned She never seerins that showed off all her teeth at once "Hey, that’s right I’d totally be sledding if you weren’t here You’re pretty sured that out, you know?"
"If you say so," I hedged
"That, or I told you, and you’re trying to play s to et to Nathan" Before you stabthings I’d encountered since arriving at Dr Cale’s lab, Tansy was definitely theI followed
We were about halfway across the bowling alley before she said, "You better not be here to try and talk Doctor C into running aith you We need her here You can stay if you want--she’d probably like it if you stayed, because then her son would stay, and they could be all ‘rar, we fight the erously lax and corrupt distribution channels’ together--but you can’t take her"
"I don’t want to," I said "We just caet soo" Assu to leave his newly rediscoveredwhen she said that we could stay, but I was starting to be afraid that Dr Cale wasn’t going to let us leave Even if she did, we could still wind up re as Nathan wanted to talk to her
Tansy looked back over her shoulder at me The look on her face was actually serious for the first ti on the hood of Nathan’s car "Didn’t Doctor C warn you about what happens when you ask questions?"
It tookabout that children’s book again I was going to need to find a copy "I’m sure I want to know," I said
"Okay," said Tansy, with a very s That seemed to exhaust her available conversation She was silent as she led me onward, into the dark
Dr Cale’s private lab was a sone to speak--with hand-drawn charts and black-and-white photographs of tapewor the walls so completely that I wasn’t even sure what color the paint was Since this looked like it was one of the original parts of the bowling alley and not a rooer spaces, they were probably so-related color As I thought that, I realized that I didn’t really know veryalleys It had never seemed important to me before
A low counter split the room in half, and more counters lined the walls, covered in lab equip on a stool at the central counter when Tansy led me into the room He was bent over a microscope--a position I’d seen him in a hundred times before--and was so focused on whatever was on the other side of his lens that he didn’t even look up when Tansy pushed o throw e hill multiple times"