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Dr Gray shifted her posture, relaxing slightly This was her territory, and she clearly feltinto it "The scientific community has known for some ti the nor it, really Whenwhen a child classified as Orange, for instance, is influencing so the electrical flow in the other person’s brain, ta with its usual systems and processes--not entirely different froer, external scale when they control an electrical current in aus, is es"
Regardless of whether or not any of us understood that, she continued "The cure isn’t a cure so es, rather than cures, the affliction"
My heart ground to a stop in my chest I could see Clancy’s face as he told me exactly that, but I’d dismissed it because--because he lied all the time, because a real cure would have to eradicate thecalled a deep brain stimulator--essentially, a kind of brain pacemaker, if you will--is iely on abilities, but the stie of its own It regulates the abnor it into what a typical human would have"
"It neuters the abilities," Cole clarified, "rather than removes them"
"Yes, exactly"
"And this procedure can be safely performed?" Alice called "Have you done one?"
"Yes," she said "I have successfully treated one child"
"One isn’t exactly a track record, Doc," Cole said "One doesn’t give us any sort of odds of success"
She merely raised her hands and said, "There wasn’t time for more than that I’et the question out I felt crushed by this, choked with anger "The idea is that every kid that’s born will have to get this to prevent thee seven," Lillian said "They ot an uneasyup from their shocked daze
"What are our next steps?" Alice asked, repositioning her camera "This is all incredible, but we have no solid proof about Agent A added to the water supply Leda quickly shuttered the research program None of the Greens have turned up any inforh for you?" Dr Gray asked
Alice didn’t have to think about it "Some kind of documentation that shows it as part of the treato to nearby treatraphs, try to find hard copy or information on their co "I think we’d need to hit at least five or six, just in case some of them turn out to be duds And in different states, too, so they knoasn’t lias left to pull this off?"