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Nathan nodded, and together we turned and walked back across the lab, past the eling to save the future
The sound of shouting reached us long before Anna’s bed came into view I couldn’t make out any words at first, but it sounded like at least three people were yelling at each other, each providing slightly contradictory instructions We came around the last corner and beheld what looked like a s Anna, asn’tIV lines, while Daisy was injecting sonize iback froing to effortlessly project the impression of absolute control Not a one of the people in front of her would sneeze without her permission, and she knew it This was her world
And I was about to disrupt it I sped up,into her field of vision She blinked atbriefly perplexed Then she waved for , too preoccupied with the effort of keeping Anna alive to pay attention to anything that wasn’t a direct co to nation was the one e else, because once it was fully foret past it Not even fear
"What’s going on, Sal?" she asked
"Tansy’s still in there" I had tried to think of ways to soften the nehile Nathan and I alking across the building I hadn’tthat could be broken gently, or explained in a way that didn’t change everything "Dr Banks has her body on life support back at Syo get her Tell et her"
Dr Cale stared at me, so stunned that even the pretense of serenity dropped away, leaving her slack-jawed and bewildered I looked defiantly back, waiting for her to raise soh… "It’s too dangerous," she said "We don’t knohere Sherman and his people are They could decide to take you back, and we’d have no way of fighting them off Or the army could step in Or you could be attacked by sleepwalkers"
"So I take Fang or Fishy with o I don’t think you have anyone who knows SymboGen better than I do at this point I understand the layout of the building, and I can find her"
"USAMRIID is there"
"USAMRIID is a risk to ood as said that they were planning to raid this place We need to move" I felt terrible about that, and I was certain everyone else was going to feel even worse I had been Sher an abandoned factory into a hoain The gardens, the hydroponics syste and food service equipment… we didn’t have the capacity to take all that with us e left Wherever ent next, we’d be starting over fro my face as if she could find the key to all her questions hidden there Then, to my profound disappointment, she shook her head and said, "I’m sorry, Sal I can’t let you do this"
"Am I your prisoner now?" The words came out louder than I had intended for thehts I thought better of you, they screa with Anna’s IV and turned to face me, his eyes wide and liquid in his pale, drawn face He looked terrified I understood the senti to be like Sher people in their private zoo? Orwhatever it is he did to Tansy in order to keep her quiet? You know she didn’t go with hiht and he took her apart one piece at a ti easy They both took prisoners Everyone in this game has taken prisoners, except for you Am I where you start?"
She stared at me for a moment I are that all activity behindAdam in his silent observation of the scene, but I didn’t dare say anything I didn’t dare do anything but look at Dr Cale and wait for her to tell me whether I was about to run away from home
Tansy had come to saveto risk and even lose her own life to bring me and the information I carried home Well, what kind of sister would I have been if I hadn’t been willing to do the sa for her?
"We don’t have a body currently suitable to play host to a fullyto die as well, because we can’t transplant her under the current circuans fro we can find a tissue typeplace in the process--and keep her alive for a while, but the stress of the additional surgeries is going to do her in just as quickly as the organ failure would She’s dying, Sal He took hter apart, he put her in a new shell like she was… like she was some sort of her Do you honestly believe hiinal is still alive? This is a trap"