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then cleared my throat again
?It will never work, JebYou can keep cutting us out in pieces, but you'll just murder more and
more sentient creatures of both speciesWe do not willingly kill, but our bodies are not weak,
eitherOur attachments may look like soft silver hair, but they're stronger than your organs
That's what's happening, isn't it? Doc slices upmy family, and their limbs shred through the
brains ofyours?
?Like cottage cheese,? he agreed
I gagged and then shuddered at the image
?It makes me sick, too,? he admitted?Doc gets real bent out of shapeEvery time he thinks
he's got it cracked, it goes south againHe's tried everything he can think of, but he can't save
them from getting turned into oatmealYour souls don't respond to injected sedation? or
poison
My voice came out rough with new horrorOur chemical makeup is completely
different
?Once, one of yours seemed to guess what was going to happenBefore Doc could knock the
human out, the silver thingy tore up his brain from the insideCourse, we didn't know that until
Doc opened him upThe guy just collapsed
I was surprised, strangely impressedThat soul must have been very braveI had not had the
courage to take that step, even in the beginning when I was sure they were going to try to
torture this very information from meI didn't imagine they would try to slash the answer out for
themselves; that course was so obviously doomed to failure, it had never occurred to me
?Jeb, we are relatively tiny creatures, utterly dependent on unwilling hostsWe wouldn't have
lasted very long if we didn't have some defen
