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I turned to look at hi to convince me that I’m still Sally," I said "Why is that so important to you? You never tried to do that before"
Dr Banks didn’t say anything
"Colonel Mitchell Is he still in charge of the local branch of USAMRIID? You know, big guy, thinning hair, sort of old around the eyes--and oh, yeah, Sally’s father Is he still the one calling the shots? How ht does he have at this point? He used to tell me his men would follow him to the end of the world Was that
San Francisco continued to roll by outside our s, broken s, empty doorways, and the constant, distant ss, trying to make myself look a little bit less childish as I leaned closer, invading Dr Banks’s personal space, and asked, "Are you trying to make me be Sally because you pro her back to hi… but his eyes cheated away and to the left, the sa in the laundry, and I knew that I had found my answer
"We should leave you on a corner for the sleepwalkers," I said, disgusted "You didn’t come to us because you needed to kno to stabilize Anna You came because you wanted me"
"You think a lot of yourself, don’t you?" Dr Banks’s voice was dull, like he couldn’t even find it in hiave Anna won’t stabilize, and the ‘chi to be huge over the next few years With as hto with it, of course, but no one’s going to shut us down We have too much money, too much power…"
"And you’ve shifted too lared at ood a cash cow as any The goodwill Iyou back to hi that little girl"
"But you told hi Sally back, didn’t you?" Nathan kept his eyes on the road I wanted to hug him, to chase the bitterness fro, Dr Banks I was just a kid when Mo with the hard-core acadeet the way she promised those men the moon and the stars if they’d just put their money in her hands, rather than in the hands of her competitors You told hi back the original personality, even though that would normally be ie such a feat of scientific glory He needed you if he wanted his daughter back"
Dr Banks didn’t say anything But he didn’t deny it either, and under the circu as a confession would have been
San Francisco was a city riddled with makeshift blockades, roadblocks, and destruction For every open street there were three more that had somehow been stopped up by either the police or the locals, before they went off to y hills I hoped that whatever had happened to them--and even in a situation like this one, where the end sees that could have happened--it had been quick, and had left them with little ti about Dr Banks’s attempts to convince me that Sally was still in my head, buried under trau a prisoner in , but able to see and understand everything that happened, was horrifying At least when I’d been an i to me, or to the body I inhabited The cousins were just tapewor broken minds around the world They weren’t jailers for the hu else was to invite et out and Fishy get behind the wheel Nathan transferred an uncharacteristically silent Dr Banks to the front passenger seat and got in next toa word about why he thought I ainst his shoulder Beverly mirrored the sound a moment later, and I had to clap les For better or for worse, ere driving into the unknown Yes, it was a trap, but wasn’t everything a trap these days? I couldn’t think of the last ti that wasn’t a trap in sos were traps Theyto ever have, and a world that had been buried because of the circumstances of my birth
"Sleepwalkers at three o’clock," reported Fishy "They don’t see to take the next few blocks a little faster You kidson"
"Okay," said Nathan Fishy accelerated I felt, rather than saw, Nathan twist around to peer down at me He asked, "Are you sure that you’re okay?"
"I’," I said "I feel nuy to be scared anyhtmares about this later" If there was a later