“Well, you’ve brought me blood, and life, and little bits of time. Why should I be surprised, now, that you bring me a new kind of invisible metal sunlight, smuggled in your blood? You people are remarkable. Almost as remarkable as my people.”
I held her hand. It felt more cool than usual. “I could have made you exactly like me, Paul. We could have roamed the world together. Maybe traveled to the other worlds, when they start to build rocket ships. You know that now, don’t you?”
“And leave the rest of us behind, like poor Jimmy,” I heard Agnes’ voice say. “We can’t let you do that.”
Somehow I managed to ask her what she was doing here.
Agnes said, “Tuesday and Sunday shorted you both on the dosage. That was the real plan. Not to kill but to weaken, to take her prisoner. Like she took u
