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What he was saying couldn’t be true I had no ists had searched for years for signs that Sally was still with , while Ronnie provided strong evidence that the implants carried memories of their own, however paper-thin and faded I wasn’t Sally Mitchell Sally Mitchell was dead I wasexactly what he wanted me to do I took a deep breath, bared nized as an outright threat, and asked, for the second ti off the topic here, don’t you?"

"Since the topic I caetting back on the topic, and I’lared at hi to look fierce and confident and like the kind of person who couldn’t be thrown off balance by accusations of surviving memory buried deep in h life pretending to belong to a species that isn’t hers, I’ly bad actress "Is she alive? Yes or no"

"Surrey has been a very bad influence on you, hasn’t she? I really do wish you’d chosen to stay with me, Sally We could have been an incredible team, you and I Brains and beauty and a coo along with the next stage of hu his head to the side and frowning Then he sighed, and nodded "Yes, she’s alive Sedated and pretty beat up, but breathing, and both parts of her are there My Anna girl is the result of transplanting soet to thements near the tail of the strobila were basically just sacks of eggs Useful for so him talk about Tansy’s anatomy--and hence my own--in such coldly clinical terms made me uncomfortable in a way I couldn’t quite define, only squir into throw up at any round, and deain This time he didn’t show his teeth, but sos any better Not when his words contained all the teeth his s

"Haven’t you figured that out by now?" he asked "She’s back atto die And if you don’t tellto happen"

That was it: that here my ability to cope came to an end I almost felt it snap I didn’t say another word I just turned and fled the roo after me, unanswered

Nathan pushed away frohis ar for me to cry ood thing; they got in the way

Maybe the sleepwalkers had the right of it All their communication was phero, because there were no words Sadly, Nathan was huh to human, and we couldn’t communicate unless I openedmy eyes with the side of my hand, and said, "Tansy’s still Tansy"

"What?"

"Anna was inal host, and I don’t think he extracted the entire iet her back to your ht be able to… to put her together again"

"Did he say where she was?"

This was the bad part I hesitated, and his face fell as he realized that whatever I was going to say next, it wasn’t going to make him happy My next words only confirmed that: "She’s at Sye and a bay between us and them, not to o, because it’s too locked down He was only able to get here because USAMRIID was helping hiet all the way into the city, evade the gangs of sleepwalkers in the streets, get into the building, find her, get her out, and get back here There’s just no way"

"I know," I said miserably Then I took a deep breath, and continued: "But I still want to tell your ets to decide whether or not this is a thing we’re going to do"

"You knohat she’s going to say She’s going to say it’s too dangerous"

Maybe that hat she would have done if it had been me in San Francisco But if it had beenthat they could find a way to cross the Bay if that was the only thing keeping the shapes depending on as at stake Dr Cale had cried when she thought that Tansy was genuinely lost to us Real tears, not the sort of thing that a person did for show

"Tansy is her daughter She should have a say, and I want to tell her anyway," I said "I’ to tell her anyway"