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“Really? What happened?”

The eyes, too, Max thought There was solasses, his hazel eyes seee Max could usually read people’s eyes in an instant and tell what kind of person they were, but with Jenner he got nothing

“The Responsivists now euards,” Eddie said when Max didn’t respond

Jenner settled into a plush sofa with a sigh “I’ve been afraid this day would coly paranoid in the past few years I guess it was inevitable that they would start keeping weapons I a suspicions”

Eddie dismissed Jenner’s concern with a wave “None ofdeal”

“You are being tooI’ve been in coh”

Vietnae Mystery solved, and he felt better for it “So how does this work?” he asked

“Normally, ould hold an intervention with Kyle’s friends and family to let him know he has the support he needs to break away from the Responsivists However, in this type of situation I will need to speak with Kyle alone for the first few sessions It’s going to be quite a shock when he wakes up and realizes what’s happened to hiave a wan ser very quickly”

“Kyle’s not violent, if you’re concerned,” Max assured him “Unlike his old man, the boy doesn’t have a temper”

“I usually prescribe so to keep subjects calloves at a side table where an old-fashioned black doctor’s bag was perched next to an arrangement of fresh flowers

“How many people have you helped, Doctor”

“Please, call me Adam Well over two hundred”

“All successful?”

“I wish I could say yes, but that’s not the case I’ve had a handful commit suicide, and even et sucked in by what they perceive to be the good works of the Responsivists, but it’s only when they have been there for a while that the group begins to exertits members lose contact with their loved ones Once that happens, it is soet them to return to their real lives”

“Why do people let it happen?” Eddie asked, but he already knew the answer It was the sa was intense, and, once you did, they never let you go