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"Maybe you’re right" I shook my head "But if there’s even a chance that it isn’t, I still have to try"

"How are you going to get to San Francisco?"

She wasn’t saying no any questions I didn’t kno to answer Tocal to steal a ferryboat"

Dr Cale’s eyebrows rose "That’s a reasonable approach, I suppose, but it ht lead to interference from USAMRIID"

"Not if we take Dr Banks with us," said Nathan "Hostages have a way of clarifying response during situations like this one"

"What if they no longer consider hied Dr Cale "He ca chi of thehirated chi in an We’rethe value of their investained nothing"

"We’re not gaining anything now," I said quietly She and Nathan both turned to look atour wheels here I knoe don’t know anything about how to stop the sleepwalkers froot bad We can’t put antiparasitics in the water at this stage without killing everybody, but if we don’t find a way toover, and people are going to keep dying We don’t knohere Shero to San Francisco We can bring Tansy back Isn’t that enough to take a risk on?"

"You’re askingI can do on a whi you to stand by while I risk "

She looked at hily, her wide blue eyes--so like his, and so unlike his, all at the sa with slow tears From almost anyone else that would have seemed like manipulation, but not from Dr Cale She didn’t manipulate people with tears That would have been crude, and beneath her, which meant that any sorrow she demonstrated noas utterly, painfully real

"I don’t want to lose you again," she said "Don’t make me do this"

"You won’t lose me" Nathan walked away from me to lean down and put his aruely as if I was intruding Ada of guilt on top of one fro two sisters and a brother, and then he’d lost one sister--maybe forever--and his place at the front of Dr Cale’s affections at the saht around his e that is? You left me because you had to, you died because you had to, and I found you There was no way it should have happened, and it did But that wouldn’t have happened if it hadn’t been for Sal starting to ask questions--if it hadn’t been for Sal falling into e scientific ht h the broken doors when I thought that they were closed forever, and now she’s trying to take irl, and you have to say that it’s okay You can’t welco the rest of the fa with you Let us do this"

"Besides, their doing thistoo closely at us, and that, in turn, willdown the factory and figure out how to escape surveillance," said Fang, speaking up for the first tis will be a proble around in here as we shift equip one of Sal’s panic attacks would do none of us any good"

I decided against re him that I only panicked when I was in a vehicle "See? You need us out of here, and you need the diversion We’ll go, and USAMRIID’s attention will be off you for a little while We’ll use Dr Banks to get into SymboGen, and we’ll be back with Tansy"

"What if we’re not here?" asked Dr Cale "Once we start n" Nathan straightened, letting her go "We’ll find you We found you before We always find each other It’s e do"

Adaain, expression bleak I forced a smile for his benefit

"Besides, it’s about ti hi to say Dr Cale looked at an, very slowly, to smile

STAGE IV: TELOPHASE

Uh, who’s responsible for this plan? Because this is a bad plan This is a plan where everybody dies, and I can’t have any part of that

–DR NATHAN KIM

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