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"You’reit sound like you wanted him to arrest us," I snapped "Because that would keep us and our scary pheromones away fro off those pheroot an ihthis is allthat at all I talked to Moth, about the differences between chimera and sleepwalkers, because I knew I’d need to explain them to you--and I really think I should do asto people who aren’t geneticists"
"You’re not a geneticist"
"No, and so off the phero that the sleepwalkers use to activate each other She said it’s like co a can of spray paint to a et art out of either one, but one will tend to beoff a che, this is neat and you should try it’ to ‘eat here, here, eat’ She’s still trying to analyze the specific pheromones that you and the other chimera put off As near as she can tell, they say ‘listen to er than you, and you should listen’ You may eventually be able to use them to accomplish just that You ed wrist, the white barely visible through the gloo to listen with their teeth?" I asked glued froe I think they’re all going to want to be close to you Soive them simple orders, like ‘stop’ or ‘don’t eat one, because the integration process involves far too much brute trauma to the host They don’t have the superstructure necessary to process complicated infor over inme feel worse and worse Every ti human, you come up with so zapper for sleepwalkers, hope that’s okay with you’ "
"I’ it takes for you to be okay with it, I ait for you We’re going to figure this all out together"
"But you still think that cop should have arrested us"
"Yes," admitted Nathan "At the very least, he should have questioned us s into the car when you were clearly injured, instead of going to a hospital I think…" He took one hand off the wheel as he reached up and adjusted his glasses, and I suddenly realized the car wasfor so with hihed, and said, "I think things are getting very bad, very quickly, and I think that officer knew about it He erous As luck would have it, he was right, and it was definitely the choice anted him to make I’m just worried about how ht, and howIt’s too late to stop the outbreak That doesn’t mean we need to help it spread faster than it has to"
I bitI couldn’t lad; I didn’t want to knohether he earing hispeople locked in as about to beco The landscape rushing by outside the car as a bruised blur that echoed
It was nice to know that a good scare that had nothing to do with being in a car could distractvehicle Maybe I just needed to get a portable DVD player and start watching horror o somewhere
I wanted to let the matter lie--I really did--but there was one more question I needed to ask before I could do that "Howpause before Nathan answered me "A lot," he said, finally "Fro to die, and a lot of the ones who don’t are going to take powerful antiparasitics and kill their implants--and they’d do it even if we had evidence that the tapeworms have achieved rudimentary sapience in their isolated state, and should hence be treated as thinking beings People have fought long and hard to have the right to control their own bodies in this country They’re going to view the ierous intruders And the sleepwalkers… ive the tapeworms that have taken their hosts over a better existence, so closer to what you and Adaht noe have to treat them as if they were already dead"
"Do you think that would work?"
"Honestly, I don’t know Most people--hu to be very upset when they find out what’s going on Even if there is a treat time before it can be put into practice, if ever"