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"Wait," I protested "Didn’t you just say that Sy to take me into protective custody soon? Why in the world would I deliverforabout what USAMRIID knows byme"
Tansy’s s about itafforded a level of concern I hadn’t done anything to earn "You ured it out yet?" she asked "I s at their own pace, and sos, so they don’t allow themselves to learn them, and all that, but there’s sort of a li you all the answers You’ve even gone digging for a few of the than this?"
"Tansy, back off," said Nathan
"What?" Tansy turned to hi her eyes in a wide parody of innocence "She asked"
"It’s because of my accident, isn’t it?"
They both turned to look at me Nathan looked worried; Tansy, expectant, like I was finally going to do thefor since weslowly, "What do you mean, Sal?"
"When I had my accident, I hurt ally brain dead, re He just nodded I continued, "So if Sy--and at this point I’m pretty sure they do; Dr Banks isn’t stupid, and neither is anyone orks for hi for ways to stop thee because of that accident It’s not severe, but there’s scarring That’s probably the sort of thing that would interfere with the i over, don’t you think? Like a physical barrier against the process SymboGen probably wants to keep ure out how to keep the i anyone else over If the io back to doing what they were designed to do, right?"
"We hope so," said Nathan He adjusted his glasses, the gesture see a different answer "Sy you since the accident I didn’t realize just how dedicated they were to keeping tabs on you until I started talking to Mom, but--"
"Wait," I said "Have you been in touch with Dr Cale since ent to her lab? I mean, other than today, when I called about medical treatment for Joyce I assumed that here you hen my father couldn’t find you, but I wasn’t sure"
"Well, sure," said Tansy "I’ve had to let him into the lab twice Three times, al to work I tried to tell him there was no point, since those folks were already symptomatic, but you know Nathan"
Nathan looked sternly at Tansy "I don’t care whether you and Morations They’re people, and they’re sick I took an oath to heal the sick when I chose to become a doctor"
"Blah, blah, blah," said Tansy She looked at , or did you suck all the interesting right out of hi allat her the way that Tasha frowned at recalcitrant animals at the shelter
It didn’t seeeneral direction "All co hair and ‘no I don’t want to go out I don’t want to do anything I just want to stay home and talk and maybe watch a movie’ You’re like the poster child for dull"
I narrowedback into old bad habits I’ve been ‘interesting’ As far as I can tell, I didn’t like it very much"
"What?" Tansy looked perplexed "When the heck were you interesting?"
I didn’t feel like having this fight with her Even host of Sally to float around our conversation, judging ht--I h about her to know that Sally Mitchell would have taken one look at Sal Mitchell and writtento be tolerated Sally liked action and adventure, fast cars and loud s that I just didn’t have the ti Sally "Drop it," I said shortly "What did you o to SymboGen? What can I possibly find out that we don’t already know?"
"Oh!" Tansy beaain "Doctor C prepped this thumb drive for you If you can just put it in one of their computers, it’ll totally harvest the data we need Only it has to be inside their firewalls, and it has to be connected to a coo We’ll get nothing, and then on’t be able to stop the cousins fro the brains of their hosts all willy-nilly and without asking theue tapewor down on your cerebellu"