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Where? I pushed, and the wall came back“Outside the city–in the wilderness… a state park, away from any
habitationsIt's not somewhere she'd been before, but she knew how to get there
“How soon?” the Seeker asked The answer came automatically“How long have I been here?”
“We let the host heal for nine days, just to be absolutely sure she was recovered,” the Healer
told me“Insertion was today, the tenth dayMy body felt a staggering wave of relief“For the rendezvous point… or even the note I could feel the host's
reaction to this–could feel it much too stronglyThe host was almost…smugI allowed the
words she thought to be spoken, so that I could learn from them
“He?” The Seeker pounced on the pronoun“Who?”
The black wall slammed down with more force than she'd used beforeShe was the tiniest
fraction of a second too late
Again, the face filled my mindThe beautiful face with the golden tan skin and the light-flecked
eyesThe face that stirred a strange, deep pleasure within me while I viewed it so clearly in my
mind
Though the wall slapped into place with an accompanying sensation of vicious resentment, it
was not fast enoughAs quickly as if it had come from me, the thought that was not mine
followed the name through my lips
CHAPTER 4
Dreamed
It is too dark to be so hot, or maybe too hot to be so darkOne of the two is out of place
I crouch in the darkness behind the weak protection of a scrubby creosote bush, sweating out
all the water left in my bodyIt's been fifteen minutes since the car left the garageNo lights
have come