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"What can we glean frohts

"Why were their eyes like that?" Brett asked "I’ve met Undead before and they weren’t like that"

Dr Newhaus rewound the projector to the second Undead boy, paused it, and approached the screen "Youto his irises, which had just begun to blur into the whites of his eyes Just like Dante’s "As the Undead age, they decay and lose their senses In other words, he is going blind"

"What?" Iblind? He hadn’t told e of the Undead boy "As you’ll remember, he had been in school for ten years at that point But still, he had no idea what I was talking about when I asked him why it was bad to take soerous When a child dies and reanimates before he reaches the , he will never be capable of learning the difference This boy was six years old when he died He will always reardless of how many years he remains on earth These Undead children are wild, unteachable, auilt And as you witnessed, they’re agile"

The conversation wandered froirl who had just completed her first burial "She’s just like us," everyone kept saying But I wasn’t interested in her

Quietly, I raised h everyone’s voices, Dr Newhaus called on rew still

"In the first interview, the Undead boy said that he took his brother’s soul because he wanted to knohere his toy truck was," I said slowly, parsing it out in my mind "He said his brother wouldn’t tell him, so he had to find it himself"

Clementine was about to interruptme finish

"What did he ether "All of us know that when an Undead takes a huains a temporary spurt of life"

Everyone nodded

"However, there is a controversial theory that asserts that ed in an Undead kiss than life A handful of Monitor researchers believe that when the Undead absorbs a person’s soul, soed in the Undead In other words, the Undead boy in the interview took his brother’s soul in order to absorb the inforripped the arly familiar Beside me, Anya whispered, "Are you okay? You look a little red"

I took a breath, and then another,suddenly constricted "I’ht about the an to sweat, and pressed h a secret were about to burst out of auze I sed

"This phenomenon is called--"

"Wanderlust," so Dr Newhaus’s sentence

I looked around to see who had answered, when I realized that I was the one who had said it

"Yes," the doctor said, studying me with surprise "Would you care to explain to the class what it is?"

A wave of nausea crept over me as I shook my head I couldn’t explain because I didn’t knohat the word even inally a German word, which translates literally into a lust for travel However, in the Monitoring world it refers to the soul’s desire to wander froiven the opportunity There are two kinds of Wanderlust What you saw in the first intervieith the boy and the truck was the most common kind, where trivial or isolated snippets of inforh it doesn’t alork properly, because the information that wanders is random The Undead boy in the interview never actually found his truck He took a chance, and now that piece of information is lost forever"

"What’s--" I said,"What’s the second kind of--of--"

"Wanderlust?" the doctor said

I nodded limmer of excitement passed over his face "I’ll show you"

He fast-forwarded the filn: SUBJECT 043

A girl sat in the sa an oversized sweater, and hugging her knees After a moment she looked up at the camera My classmates shifted in their seats as they studied her She looked about h her hair was dull and brittle like straw Clouds obscured her irises, ray; her eyes were out of focus, as if she were staring at nothing

"How old are you?" Dr Newhaus asked offscreen

"Seventeen," she said, biting her nails

"And how long have you been dead?"

She ain, as if she had lost track "Nineteen years"