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I expect him to attack, but instead, Thomas pushes me aside with an urgency that almost sends me sprawling to the floor. I bump hard into his frozen self, and the statue-like Thomas falls down. This clears the way for the animated Thomas, who proceeds to get into the position his frozen self was in and grabs Mira by the throat.
“Eugene,” I whisper. “Why am I still here?”
Mumbling something in Russian, my friend frantically examines his machine.
In stunned fascination, I watch Thomas choke Mira with such force that the veins on his hands strain from the exertion.
My best guess for Thomas’s strange behavior is that, in his Guided state, he must not understand that she’s frozen. He must not realize that whatever he does to her here won’t stick.
The Super Pusher must’ve been too speci
