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"That was ht, too"

"Itin andinside of your skull, wouldn’t you try to teach yourself a feays to block hient and deterh to come up with a cure for this sickness would have taken every precaution against it

"So her ed" Chubs trailed off, running his finger down the side of one of the open textbooks

"Where did you get these?" I asked, picking up the nearest brick-like book

"A bookstore," he said, then added quickly, "after hours Vida took theet out of the car"

"I’es Most of the the one he was looking through noere neuro-this and neuro-that, all with pictures of the human mind on the cover

He looked up, an unreadable expression on his face "Clancy canhe can break into a person’s ht about it "Influence their feelings, keep thees into their head so they’re seeing so that’s not there"

Another voice chimed in "He can also--" Chubs and I pivoted toward Nico, who looked like he wanted nothing more than to dive back behind the wide computer monitor "It’s not justit’s not just that he can make them freeze up He can move people around Like they’re toys I saw him do it to the researchers at Thurmond a few times He’d jump into theirIt was really hard for him to keep up The last tiet terrible ave raines, not human decency

"Can he affect someone’s memories?" Chubs asked "Can he erase the the them But can he manipulate someone’s ht myself, half-stunned by the realization that slammed into me "He only ever saw my memories when I let him in I don’t think he could do it on his own The real reason he tried teaching ure out hoas doing it"

"That other Orange kid you knehat could he do?"