I’m sure you’d noticed?’ When the mainlander gave him a single nod of confirmation he continued, ‘They’re afraid that if they come too close..., she’ll do something that’ll make ’em die.’ Royce arched a curious eyebrow. ‘Yea,’ Gems said. ‘Don’t you think it’s unusual that she never wears clothes that show any part of her body?’ Royce couldn’t very well tell Gems the intimate details he shared that night with Charly. But he knew her very, very well and that there was nothing wrong with her. "How could nanites I drank spread through my whole body? I'm no expert,but I do know that nanites are administered to specific areas fortreatment and don't travel from there." You're right," Amelia said, "currently nanites have a very limitedability to relocate within the body. These nanites are like nothing Ihave ever seen, however. Not only have they spread, they'rereproducing." How the hell can they do that?" Simply put, they're mining the resources necessary from your body,"Amelia. Bob let us in, and then directed Debby down the hall, where she disappeared into a bedroom. She still had on the raincoat. Confused, I wandered into the living room. Grabbing a beer from the bar, I sat down and asked Jeff what was up.“It’s Olympics night,” he responded gleefully.“Huh?”“Olympics night. Didn’t Debby tell you?”“Nope.”“Probably wanted to surprise you.”I interrupted. “She surely did. What the hell is Olympics Night?”Jeff grinned widely. “Several years ago, we had a party during the. “I take it you were unaware that your father was killed in an auto accident almost three years ago. Your mother passed from cancer just six weeks ago. I’m sorry it has taken this long to let you know, but we had to do some investigation before we were able to track you down.”It couldn’t be right. My parents had both been killed in that accident. But he was telling me that only my father had died. This was crazy. I felt things shifting. My sense of reality. My memories of another life. The.