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Renée is gone in the morning, a pot of maple oatmeal for the girls and Trouble cooling on the stove and a note on the fridge, she's going to be gone all day on a day trip to Tucson with her friends.
Andi wakes up first. Bella's not far behind.
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aeskhyne
He comes upstairs only a minute or so later, wearing the rest of his clothes, and flops on the couch.
"So what's this about everybody turning into Yeerks?"
"So what's this about everybody turning into Yeerks?"
pandion
"To check each other for icky brain-contents," Andi says. "We can probably acquire Dad's."
"Andi and I could just about tolerate having each other run checks, if it were necessary, Robin says maybe Ethan and probably vice-versa, how about you?"
aeskhyne
Trouble shrugs. "I'd let you," he says. "Or Ethan. Or Robin." With a wry smile, "You might not want to, though."
"I don't want to morph a Yeerk at all; the question is whether it's better than some appreciable risk of discovery and hostile infestation. If we're pressed for time and can't just find a way to contain you for three days."
aeskhyne
"It's not the only way to check, though, is it?" he says thoughtfully. "I mean. You could beat me up for a while and see if the Yeerk bails. I wouldn't mind."
"I don't know how well it'd work. It depends on things we don't know about how Yeerks react to injured hosts. But yes, I thought of it."
"It has the additional disadvantage of not generalizing well."
"On a related note, we are curious how good an anaesthetic acquisition trance is."
aeskhyne
He perks up some more. "Ooh. Yeah, I think Robin might've mentioned something while I was down there. I'll go see."
And down he goes into the basement! That basement is having an exciting day today.
And down he goes into the basement! That basement is having an exciting day today.
pandion
"I know sooooo much more than I needed to know about so many things."
hold-infinity
It's another few minutes before Robin comes up and hands Bella a short page of notes.
"To summarize: It doesn't make anything hurt less, but it makes you care less about it hurting," she says. "Trouble, who already likes pain, can barely tell the difference. Ethan says there's a world of difference. I'm somewhere in between."
"To summarize: It doesn't make anything hurt less, but it makes you care less about it hurting," she says. "Trouble, who already likes pain, can barely tell the difference. Ethan says there's a world of difference. I'm somewhere in between."
"Interesting. So, worth acquiring a Yeerk shortly before squishing it. Thank you."
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