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Nathan chuckled, reaching up to stroke my hair with one hand "I’ll look forward to it"

"You’re never having another nighthtmares"

"You’re such a charmer, I totally understand why people let you talk the live worms," said Fishy calmly "Now shut the fuck up, or I’ll dump your useless ass on the street corner"

"You can’t keep threatening me forever, boy," said Dr Banks "Eventually, you’ll have to either act on your words or admit that you still need e"

"I knohich one I’d prefer," said Fishy The van sped up a little hed and closed my eyes I could feel the faint buzz that notified me of sleepwalker presence at the back of ainst , now that I knehat it was and what it reallyup on us now, at least while I ake--and I had Dr Banks to thank It wasn’t until he’d brought Anna into the building that I’d really begun to understand what I felt around Adam, and around Sherman and the others

Sherman had to know that we could detect each other Maybe that was the real reason he’d kept me isolated from his people the way he had: he hadn’t wanted oing to on my own I didn’t knohat useful applications it would have had back in hisI could have done with it, if I’d understood what those occasional flashes of disorientation and awareness really meant

"You’ll never lie toto keep the pair in the front seat fro

"I promise I’ll do my best not to," he said, and that was soe to never do it, ever, under any circumstances would have been: he was human, and fallible, just like all of us He couldto happen wouldn’t do anybody any good, but it could leave us unprepared for as yet to come

In the front seat, Dr Banks made a small noise that was neither scoff nor snort I liftedat, and stiffened, the drury inflooded intoon the tide

Sy beacon of enduring civilization ae of the city It looked… it looked like nothing at all had changed, like everything was business as usual and anyone who clai wolf The late afternoon sun gleaated parking lot was filled with cars That was the only thing that broke the illusion of perfect normalcy: there were several olive drab ar the hybrids and electric cars, which looked like candy-colored jewels next to their larger, more functional cousins Fro was still perfectly o home to their families, could you?" The question see I could think of to say Nothing would have put the sheer incongruity of the scene into words, and so I didn’t even bother to try

"They were safer staying with us, and they recognized that" There was a shifty note to his voice thatthe full truth, that there’d been a lockdown or sorounds until it was too late, and there was nowhere else for the him on it When had he ever told us the full truth, about anything? Even when his own life was on the line, Dr Steven Banks was still trying to play the angles

"That’s why I chose Dr Cale’s brand of monster over yours, you know," I said quietly "At least she was always honest about what she was"

Nathan’s hand tightened on my knee, but he didn’t contradict my assessment of his mother I think we both knew her too well for that

Dr Banks stiffened but didn’t say anything

Fishy broke the silence "Gee, will I be glad to go back to crazy science land, and no longer be sharing a van with the issues party," he said, amiably, and started down the hill toward Sys around us seemed cleaner somehow, like they had been cleared out before they could take anything ht hold on Beverly’s leash, watching warily for signs of aates that I realized the fizzing sensation in one There were no sleepwalkers nearby, unless Dr Banks was holding so for further study If they were in airtight roo each other--I wouldn’t be able to pick up on theot me into one of those rooms, no one would ever findidea Fishy pulled up in front of the security gate I was soh the two ear and carrying assault rifles--a far cry from their careful inoffensiveness of days past Fishy rolled down the