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I took a deep breath, trying to forceheart to calm down It was funny; at moments like this, my heartbeat didn’t sound like dru afraid of the world
Once I was sure I could talk again without throwing up, I said, "Don’t do that in the car, okay? If you do that in the car again, I’et out" I wasn’t sure I didn’t need to do that anyway This was the second time in the same week that Nathan had taken his hands off the wheel, and that was so I couldn’t handle I could walk from here to the nearest BART station It couldn’t possibly beto drive like that
"I won’t," he said, sounding genuinely apologetic "I’m sorry"
"Okay Just… okay" I took a breath The book was still in irl’s face with er She looked terrified I understood how she felt "How long was I out?" Why did you leave me alone when I couldn’t defend myself?
"A little over an hour You sort of scared ns were steady, and you’d already had a hell of a day… it seeood idea to let you sleep while we did all the crazy science shit that you wouldn’t have understood anyway"
"Yeah I guess that was s look, but out of deference to my discomfort, he kept his attention mainly on the road I could have kissed hiood chance that it would have distracted hi I wanted to do "Moet scared when you woke up withoutin that lab, I’hed a little, sounding unsteady "You ht about that Did she stay until you woke up?"
"Yeah, and I woke up to find her staring at me all creepy-time, like I was soood way to end an unplanned nap Let’s never do that again, okay?" I considered telling him that Ada, and it wasn’t like he’d done anything I wanted Nathan tome about his ?"
"Reviewed Mom’s notes, looked at some samples she had prepared for e showed up She’s been expecting us for a while, apparently" He s on the road this ti involved the way that they did triggered a lot of warning bells with her"
My heart started pounding again This tily familiar drums I just wished I knehat made the difference between the two "What… what did she say aboutto need a poster child for the good side of the i sickness--was already getting started The first cases appeared shortly before your crash They were just a lot ht now SymboGen was able to hush thes up any to say was interrupted by theout of the woods to the side of our car, his eyes dead and staring like the eyes of the woman who had been on my back porch only a few hours before He raced to the side of the car, slalass ofelse Nathan shouted so that was half profanity and half raordless surprise The car locks snapped home as he hit the button on the control panel
Not that the sleepwalker tried the handles Thewhat looked like it had been a very nice business suit, before he got taken over by a tapewor his hands against the , right up on the glass, so close that I could see the glassy e detail His mouth was open, but with theclosed, I couldn’t tell if he wasabout our current situation
If he was trying to talk to us, I didn’t want to know about it
Horns blared around us as the otheron The sleepwalker kept sla the and drive away, but succeeded only in ot stuck on the shoulder or ran into the ditch next to the freeway The sound of blaring horns spread as panic leapt like a disease fro their doors and running away fro away frolass again I shrank back against Nathan, who put his ar hard, enough that the glass was starting to fog
Then someone outside the car screamed I whipped around and saw thatfro into the same camp as Devi’s wife: they weren’t docile They were violent One of the to wrench her head off Another was dragging aback into the woods I didn’t knohat they were going to do with those people I didn’t need to think about it very hard to know that I didn’t want to