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I frowned It tookI’ve never really liked video games They moved too fast, and involved too much violence I was happier with cartoons and audio books when I needed so to keep me entertained "You’re really sad, aren’t you?" I ventured
"Not any to die today Thanks for that" He thrust his hand out at ers spread I blinked Then I took it, and shook He beao houys a car" He pulled his hand away and loped off toward the stairway that would grant him access to the deck I stared mutely after him, not sure how I should respond
Dr Banks did it for ht?" he asked "Not sure I’d feel good about leaving hi to make it back here to use it It’s just athe city with the arrogant bastard who brought about the end of mankind in order to increase his profit share is sothe older man’s protests, and hauled hilance over the side of the boat, tightened ins now
–FROM THE NOTES OF SHERMAN LEWIS (SUBJECT VIII, ITERATION III), NOVEMBER 2027
The techs are tearing down the last of the essential equips I feel like Santa Claus: we’reit twice We should have room in the truck forbehind a lot of personal belongings, with no way of knohether it’s ever going to be possible for their owners to come back and retrieve theone dark This was a good way station I hoped that it ht prove to be our ho, and I do not knohat lies ahead of us
The people I ith here are human, with the exception of Adam--my precious boy--and Sal, who may never be fully at ease with her nature That’s my fault as much as it is anyone else’s, but as I do not have the power to revise the past, I choose not to dwell on that The simple fact is that I live my life surrounded by the planet’s do Soon, Nathan and Sal will return with Tansy Soon, I will have to ment call:
Who inherits the earth?
–FROM THE JOURNAL OF DR SHANTI CALE, NOVEMBER 16, 2027
Chapter 19
NOVEMBER 2027
The garage where the employee vehicles were kept was locked, which made no sense to me--who stops in theis safe and secure frole swipe of the crowbar he’d acquired fro noise thatfor an attack I still wasn’t picking up on any nearby sleepwalkers, but as I had tried to explain to Dr Banks, my funny sort of radar was neither tested nor proven to be completely reliable It was a mad science party trick, and like all party tricks, I had to assume that sometimes it could fail to work the way it was supposed to
Fishy slipped into the garage A host out of the darkness, saying, "The lights are out, but I think we’ll be okay"
That was our cue I slipped in after hi Beverly’s curiously sniffing nose lead the way Her sleepwalker radar was , we’d know that we needed to get the hell out
High ere set around the edge of the garage roof, allowing the watery San Francisco light to ooze inside, see to the corners of the room and trickled down the walls to outline the shapes of the cars and trucks that had been safely tucked away by their owners before those owners went on to meet their fates The air slad for the darkness, glad for the shadows that concealed the corners and the secrets theyandelse lived in this space If a sleepwalker had been trapped inside, they had long since starved to death I didn’t think that was the case, though I was pretty sure the lock Fishy had so carelessly destroyed had been placed by soh another door--sooal-oriented search--and finished things in the only way they could Sonity
Fishy didn’t seem bothered by the s his hands around his eyes as he peered through the glass "Can’t see a da for unlocked doors One of these bastards has to still have the keys in it"
"Why?" I asked I moved toward the nearest van at the sa for an answer before I started trying to help
"Because otherwise I’ one of you how to hot-wire a car, and trust me, that’s not the sort of skill you pick up in one lesson" Fishy pulled on the door of a pickup truck, scowled, andto be either one of you; it’s sure as shit not going to be Dr Frankenstein; that means we need a car with keys"