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Not I, said the Fly, another of my dad’s stupid expressions that popped into my head, and for the first time in forever I wished I couldn’t hear his voice

Not human? Not at all?

So, what, then?

"Nope No way" I shook e their level of crazy "It’s not even possible"

Griffin spoke up, playing the voice of reason "Possible? Kyra, look around you Think about e are Are any of us really in any position to question what is, and isn’t, possible any different about you" She said it kinder, and even usedto be nice

"Different?" I shot back "Different is having a weird eye color or needing to wear braces for an extra year What you’re talking about doesn’t make me different, it makes me" I threw my hands in the air "I don’t even knohat it makes me" I wanted to pullwas justtoo much

But

Griffin wasn’t so far off with the whole who-are-we-to-question-what’s-possible thing

And then there was that one thing, with the NSA guy at the Tacoma facility, that one down in the ducts, where he’d shone his flashlight on ent Truuys in the alley, "She’s the one ant"

I’d figured it , even while I’d tried to convince

"So, what does this all mean?" I finally said "I mean, how and why andhow?" I felt broken as I held outthere if I wasn’t me? "If I’m not human, then what the heck a ed bobble-head doll

Sih ed to Tyler, just like it had all along, I let Sith--because I needed it I needed it so damn much "You’re more human than anyone I’ve ever known," he whispered, and I almost smiled, because usually when people called each other hume human like that Except I knew he ave him a quick squeeze in return

"My father used to tell aze toward the ceiling, the sky "Sos, but ’ and we all knehat he ed "Maybe he was at some point, but not for the first one"

The room went silent while she talked; even the computers seemed to hum less noisily, as if her words had suddenly beco you could feel and see and taste

"He said they struck a deal at the Meeting--those scientists, the ones like s were, froaze on us "Can you believe that? To trade people for technology" She gave a peevish shake of her head "It’s not like we had a choice in the ree or not People had already been taken and experireeoverne technology--for turning a blind eye to these abductions They would benefit from this obviously advanced culture" She stressed the word obviously, s known

I felt like I was gonna be sick as I tried to process where I fit in all this Whether I was supposed to consider myself part of this "advanced culture" now, or if I was still just plain old one through overnovernencies, and how I’d scoffed at the very idea I al so close-ot exactly what he deserved" I didn’t pretend not to knohat Griffin had done to hi to let his own daughter be used as an alien-lab-rat in exchange for soets had punched his own one-way ticket to hell

Griffin didn’t comment one way or the other about her father "In the end, the deal never worked out the way my dad, or the other scientists and politicians, wanted it to The ‘technology’ our side was prolasses or anything like that The scientists were promised alien DNA that they could experiment on, that they’d planned to learn frorin "There was only one probleht we’d be"

I gasped, finally clueing in "We are the alien technology?" No wonder ere constantly being sought after Hunted

She shrugged "Think about it Our metabolisms are slower We need less food and sleep than nore ridiculously slowly, and we heal spontaneously Why wouldn’t we be valuable? What pharet their hands on a few strands of our DNA? Or even better, what government wouldn’t kill for an army of soldiers with lethal blood?"