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In Gerht, changing his stances on nearly allabout a legislative overhaul But the story was buried, appearing as a sidebar on a coht he’d just lost his mind

In Japan, a Buddhist monk knoide for his humanitarian efforts had murdered more than thirty of his followers in their sleep with a knife froht Just the day before, theno signs ofhad taken place in the VirtNet, the monk surely in a Coffin

A woman in Canada known for her charitable contributions to the cohter who’d begun to worry about her Themad She killed all of her children, then her husband when he got home All she would tell the police was that she’d been told to do it

There were too hbors and friends said the sauy" and "She didn’t have a bad bone in her body"

What really convinced Michael, though, were the nonviolent stories What purpose, after all, could Kaine have in sending Tangents into huet thrown in jail? Maybe those were evidence of the transfers not working

He and his friends also found several reports on people changing their nor rash decisions Corporate executivesoff subsidiaries Governh to bring it to the attention of the NewsBops--thoughofffro down from jobs they’d held for years There were so many stories that Michael almost--almost--didn’t flinch when they ca Jackson Porter, wanted for cyber-terrorism

But Michael was able to push that to the side for now, focusing on the possible Tangent invasion It was all too ether Michael had been a news junkie his whole life, and he’d never seen anything like this

"They have to be Tangents," he said for at least the tenth tiovernainst his constituents "This is crazy How can people not notice a connection?"

"Think about it," Bryson replied He turned off the ancient device and slid it away in disgust, as if it were the cause of all the reports "They don’t knoe know You really think soot it!’ "--he snapped his fingers--" ‘By George, I’ve got it! Co over the minds of all these people!’ "

Michael rolled his eyes "I know, but it just see all over the world at the saht be copycat work," Sarah said "But a lot of it has to be Kaine I’ents--made some tweaks after he sahat happened, then a week or two later sent a whole bunch out at once I just don’t get what he’s trying to accomplish"

Michael didn’t, either "Yeah, so’s consistent I can kind of understand the govern to have others to coed, as if it didn’t reallyin history

"Chaos," Bryson said in a spooky whisper

Michael just looked at hi for him to expound on his dramatic pronounce ood old-fashioned chaos"

"Why?" Sarah asked