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"I would never use a hacksaw on you, Steven," said Dr Cale sweetly "Too much chance you’d bleed out, and I wouldn’t want that It would be over too fast"
"If Dr Cale isn’t erous here," I said hurriedly "Why did you coerous?" I had to force myself to say the name of his pet chimera I wanted to call her "Tansy" I didn’t want to call her anything at all
"Anna’s why I ca back to Dr Cale "She’s not doing so good We need your help"
"You hurt hter--you may have killed her," said Dr Cale coldly "Why should I help you?"
"You should help Anna because part of your ‘daughter’ "--he scowled in obvious distaste--"lives inside her If you really care about your little science experih for you, well…" Slowly, he began to s his lips closed, and both Adalossy white display of his teeth "I’, or you wouldn’t have coirl back I understand that You put a lot of work into her, and it would be a shaet you into Sy your heart desires, and all you have to do is help me"
"Why do you make a face like it’s bad when you call Tansy my sister, but let Anna call you her father?" asked Ada, an uncharacteristically fierce look on his face "It’s the sa"
"No, it’s not, you little aboe at all, reht he had soet the upper hand on all of us "I let Anna callthat thinks it belongs to you Surrey calls you her children because she’s sick in the head" His gaze flickered to Nathan "If I was her biological child, I think I’d be pretty da you’re not my brother," said Nathan coldly
Dr Banks looked briefly surprised He covered it quickly, but the flicker of confusion had been evident to all of us When he caether in relative harmony Whatever inforive hiht still have a chance
"Why would I want her body back?" asked Dr Cale
"Because she’s brain dead but on life support, and I kno etables," said Dr Banks "Maybe you could cultivate yourself a replacement"
I balled my free hand into a slow fist I had hated people before--had even hated him before--but until that moment, I hadn’t knohat it was to hate someone so much that I wanted to scratch their eyes out just for the pleasure of watching theh the rest of their life
Luckily, Dr Cale had h her hate She snapped her finger Fang seemed toa portable, battery-operated bone saw, and it said so me that I didn’t bat an eye If Dr Cale wanted a bone saell The only person she was likely to use it on definitely deserved it
Dr Banks did not share ainst the wall of his cell like he thought it was going to do hiood at all "Now Surrey--"
"Two questions, Steven," she said, sounding absolutely calm I suppose she had reason to be After all, she was the one who controlled thethe bone saw "If you answer them both honestly and to ers, or the hands those fingers are attached to Lie to oes away Do you understand?"
Dr Banks hesitated Nathan sighed
"My mother, whatever you want to call her, doesn’t fuck around," he said "She doesn’t less She ive the cliché Please, either tell her what she wants to know or tell her that you’re not going to, so that I can take Sal out of here before the fingers start flying"
"Still protecting that girl’s delicate sensibilities? You’re going to have to stop one day" There was no venom left in Dr Banks’s voice: he sounded like a man who had looked into the depths of his own soul and found nothing there but dark inevitability His gaze slithered back to Dr Cale He squared his shoulders, sitting up a little straighter, as if posture alone could soure "What do you want to know?"
"What’s the plan that required you to make a chih people on life support to make the to be buying anything froe of collapse"
"It’s not as far gone as youin the Midwest and on the East Coast They duical interventions--fun tih The country is falling to pieces It’s just slow, and it’s leaving sroup, pull back, stay standing Maybe we’ll bring America back someday, maybe not, but for now, the fall of this nation is not an issue and won’t cause us any problems," said Dr Banks A thin runnel of satisfaction laced his sovernn would never have done this We have years of data to support our claim"