Episode VII Pedro's death The encounter-clash of the previous day between Abel and Willy had worried Professor Hamilton and the members of the Team for several reasons: first of all, the two had given them the impression of knowing each other, but since Willy had been hibernated for decades and that doctor Parker looked thirty-five years old at the most, this seemed decidedly inexplicable. That woman had then given proof of possessing particular faculties, at least on par with those of their host, and the two things put together had led all of them to suspect that not even she was exactly human. Finally, they could not explain why Abel had attacked Willy so brutally and, since she had not shown up for work that morning, she certainly would not have revealed it. In any case, the result of

