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His tone changed, beco I knew that most of the station’s listeners--if it was just this station; if this wasn’t going out nationwide--would take his words as paternal and loving, but I saw the to trapfor my entire life
"Sally, if you can hear this, if you’re out there so to me, Sally, please, come home The people who told you to steal from me, they’re not your friends I don’t knohat lies they’ve been feeding to you, but I only have your best interests at heart, I’ve only ever wanted to help you, and I can’t do that if you’re running froainst you for what you did I’ you for the people ere hurt I know that none of this was your idea But Sally, please, please, I a you Please coed, and an unfamiliar woman said, "That was Dr Steven Banks at his press conference earlier today, discussing the break-in at the SymboGen headquarters that resulted in the deaths of three security guards, and the hospitalization of two doctors It is widely believed that this break-in was made possible by the actions of Sally Mitchell, a patient of SymboGen’s Miss Mitchell, as you asped and turned off the radio before the woat it, htly around myself, when the car doors opened Beverly and Minnie ca into the backseat, and Beverly shoved her nose under ed while she ay The door closed, and the driver’s-side door opened I kept staring at the radio
"Sal?" Nathan put a hand on my arm as he slid back into his seat I didn’t react He pulled the hand away, closing his door, creating a safe, enclosed space around us Only then did he try again, asking, "Sal, honey, what’s wrong? What was on the radio?"
"Dr Banks" I turned slowly to face him "He did a press conference He told everyone about the break-in, and said that people got hurt, and that it was es, he says, he just wantsa reward for anyone who turns you in, and trying to deflect people fro SymboGen’s involvement in the sleepwalker outbreak at the salasses back up his nose "I guess that just means we’ll need to be a little bit o?"
"Fasten your seat belt," I said
Nathan fastened his seat belt
"Is yourto let us back into the lab when there are people looking forfor you, and there have always been people looking for her," he said "Maybe that doesn’t sound reassuring, but it is, because she’s always been willing to let you in You’re her greatest creation, a chi to let her use you as a lab subject, but darling, you have to understand how ives you over her She needs to study you She’ll let us in"
"The broken doors will still be open"
"Yeah," said Nathan, reaching for the wheel "And while I find it deeply odd that my life is now defined by a children’s book, it’s also reassuring As long as Mo like the newest book of the daoing to where the monsters are is that the monsters will always let you in"
"Yay,ht a little bitas I couldn’t see anything around us, I could al safely still But other cars had a tendency to break the illusion, and with Nathan driving the way he had to in order to get us to safety, it was better for ine ru as Nathan rolled from the shoulder and back onto the road
The sirens started a few seconds later
The sound was co from directly behind us I openedred and blue lights "Nathan…"
"I know Just be cool, okay? I can handle this" He pulled over again, leaving his hands resting on the wheel, while I stayed frozen ina girl’s skin What if the cop could tell somehow? What if ere both arrested, and I was thrown into whatever sort of cell they reserved for creatures who dared to pretend to be people, and I never saw Nathan or the dogs again?
Beverly, sensing my distress, shoved her nose intoto push her away, as Nathan rolled down theand a flashlight shined into the car, illu toto blindBeverly pulled her nose out of s, miss?" asked the officer The voice was ht into find an answer that was both honest and unlikely to get me into trouble Finally, I settled for the safest option: "Y-yes," I sta one is Beverly, and the little one is Minnie They’re both friendly, and we have leashes for them" I wasn’t sure why I felt the need to add that last part, except that I’d heard horror stories before of cops shooting dogs for getting too close to thenation that see had teeth in its s were apt to show off their teeth in the process of panting, that irls