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It was funny, but after a few "days" I started to think I could feel people co, even started to be able to predict ould walk into view by the tingle at the back of my h that I began to wonder if it was real Sleepwalkers coh pheromones Maybe chi

So I was lonely and isolated, but I wasn’t completely alone Sherman visited often, even when I wished he wouldn’t, even when it was inappropriate for hie bath in the e" only worked with him about half the ti I would think I was safe and then he would just walk in onacross my nakedness in a way that eneral lack of a nudity taboo He looked atto decide whether or not to eatHe see forced to trackbeen the ones to collect me from USAMRIID, they were also cleared to interact with me--or maybe this was a punishment of some sort, and I was a chore they had to coiven I didn’t know, and I didn’t care All that mattered was that they weren’t Sherht me a tray or ca his hands ontrack of tihly every four hours, followed by a long period where I was supposed to be sleeping But even that wasn’t perfect, since the first meal usually arrived about an hour after I woke up in the " ht I was also running laps around the abandoned department store, which probably burned off aspush-ups in what used to be the perfu the acrid burn of the che er, I would have done a better job of fighting forto ed up like a lab aniuess I was running another lap around the store when so up easily I turned to see Ronnie jogging next tohard as he ran Despite that, he didn’t look like he was in any distress I was trying to get into shape He was already there

Ronnie caught ether above dark brown eyes, and growled, "What?" He tried to pitch his voice low, but it came out in a soprano squeak, so distinctly feminine that it h that I didn’t have a proble Ronnie as h forI was hu why you’re here," I said, recovering fro to run "Is it ti new stuff to replace what you took yesterday"

"I’ you whether that was yesterday, today, or to," he said, with less open an slowing down I did the sa in housewares, facing one another "I’m not here for blood I’m here for you"

I blinked at him "I’m sorry I don’t understand"

"No, you never do, do you?" Ronnie shook his head "Sherht about that idea as I felt, because Ronnie sighed and reached out to touchto take you apart He just has soo with you quietly if you’ll answer a question for ambit more and more of late It didn’t alork--it didn’t even work very often--but when it did, it could teachht coically transport myself out of this mall and back into ain? Okay, Sal, fire away, but reht you here, where the mall is really located, or what Sherman wants you for That’s all between you and hi myself in the middle"

"Why did they have to put you in a different body? I ood body It seeh I know you don’t like it very , you should have just kept that one"

Ronnie didn’t say anything I gri in ure out what the situation ith Ronnie and his current body for days--it see here This was the first tie to ask, and I was suddenly unsure it had been a good idea