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"I atching you sleep, just in case you, you know Had a bad drea suddenly aard "I have bad dreams sometimes, and it helps if I’ to wrapthe truth about what she’d been able to do--and I had no reason to doubt her, even if Nathan wasn’t quite so sure--I was talking to a tapeworiven full control of its very own hu me sleep, just in case I had bad dreams

This situation was creepy on so in Ada me earnestly It was clear that he had no idea that I could construe what he’d been doing as even re Why should he? If Dr Cale and Tansy were hisat me while I was unconscious probably see to do

"Oh," I said That didn’t see, "I have bad drea lad to do it Moht now He wanted to leave when you fainted, but she convinced him that he should stay until you woke up at least, and listen to what she had to tell hi Neverall the scientific details of the D syn, and those would have been over my head anye came here because I wanted answers, and I should have been included in the process of getting them

"Why she never contacted him after she left SymboGen" Adam’s smile faded "He’s really upset about that He doesn’t believe her when she says I’ood reasons for doing what she did"

"I…" I stopped Finally, I scooted to the side, patting the cot with one hand Feeling a little silly, I said, "Why don’t you co to hurtover me

"Okay," said Adam He obediently trotted over to sit down on the other end of the cot, bea like he’d just been invited to his first real party

Having hi had been I sed my anxiety--I was the one who asked him to sit down, I would live with it--and said, "Family is important to Nathan It’s so iht after we started dating That’s how sad he was that she was gone fro out she was here with you this whole time is hard for him It hurts him" Inspiration struck, and I added, "Hoould you feel if you found out your one away to live with another family for years and years, and never even called to let you know she was still alive?"

"Sad," said Adam, after a pause to consider his options "But happy, too, because it would mean my mother was still alive, when I would have been worried that she wasn’t"

I blinked That wasn’t the answer I’d been expecting "It wouldn’t bother you that she’d been off doing things without letting you know that she was all right?"

"No Should it?" Adato unsnarl all theto be disappointed if he started looking atabout

"Uht a little more before I openedit would "That depends," I said, finally "Don’t you like to knohat your ?"

"I can’t always," he said "Soo with her, because it’s not safe"

"It’s not safe?" I echoed, and frowned "Why not?" Ada about being a tapewor terribly dangerous--and even if he did, it wasn’t like that was illegal or anything Anyone who heard him would just assu to make me understand how he could be a tapeworht be crazy

Ada places that aren’t safe Like South America And Africa, once She took Tansy when she went to Africa, because she said it wasn’t safe for her, but having Tansy with her would make da--darn sure that it wasn’t safe for anyone else, either"

His hastily edited "da to one of the kids who came into the shelter to look at the kittens and puppies "But you couldn’t go with her, because it wasn’t safe"

"Yeah" Ada dangerous at people, so they back off being dangerous at Moerous at anyone I’d just be soerous at Anyway, I do okay with helping in the lab, but I can’t help too s that aren’t supposed to be dropped"