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a lab? A mountaintop? The Mariana Trench?"
Ken didn't answer. His data knocked patiently at Miri's front door. www.feedbooks.com

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"Okay. Go."
Ken turned and started down the beach.
Taka raised her voice: "What if—"
"We'll catch up with you afterwards," he said, not turning.
"I guess this is it, then," Taka said.
Lenie, still beside her, tried on a smile. It didn't t.
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Chapter
XI Parsimony
Achilles Desjardins was breeding exorcists when he learned he was a suspect.

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But as it turned out, they were saying other things as well. www.feedbooks.com

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Chapter
XII Corral

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Chapter
XIII Turncoat
"That's odd," said Lenie Clarke.

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"It wasn't a counteragent," Ouellette said.
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Chapter
XIV Crash
The Crusade, thought Lenie Clarke, could go on without her.

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Chapter
XV The Skill of the Chase

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She gulped. "Some. Spread most of it around." She shook her head. "Gave some
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Chapter
XVI Remedial Ed

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Chapter
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Chapter
XVIII Paranoid

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"—to me?" Phong was saying.
Lubin looked down at him. "What?"
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Chapter
XIX Matryoska
Clarke didn't make the call.

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Chapter
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Chapter
XXIII Toggle

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"Who's with you?" he asked in a low voice.
"Ricketts," she told him.
"Rick—" He remembered. " No."
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Chapter
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She could barely remember a time when she hadn't bled.

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So, naturalists observe, a ea
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Chapter
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Chapter
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Chapter
XXVIII Bastille
Sudbury rose in the night like a luminous tumor.

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Chapter
XXIX Empath

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Part III
Epilog: Singular Hessian 347

Failure to converge. Condence limits exceeded.
Further predictions unreliable.

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