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I’m the only one he talks to, and most of what he says is Alice in Wonderland dialog, except when it isn’t. ”Gerry nodded but didn’t say anything. She thought of her friend, suspended in space, her inner processes as mysterious and miraculous now as those of a chrysalis, and distinctly felt a message pass between them. She looked like serious trouble.

”It could have been the real Wade. ”That earns a long, long stare. The vat may be where the meat sits, but all this is what makes the vat work. He taxied in slowly, braked, opened the door.