CHAPTER 11THE NEXT DAY, JAMES, MATT, Anais, and now Pearl spent hours imaging James’s implant and the T. spiralis. At some point, Anais had started referring to the parasite as the “Trick.” It seemed like a fitting name to James, although he might have added adjectives, like “f*****g Trick.”
The med-bot took forever to catch up to her, though, and figure out what she meant when she used the newly coined term. “Keep up, flash-ass!” Anais had yelled at it finally as it once again froze up when she asked for a different angle on the Trick.
Strange how the med-bot always knew whom she yelled at when she called it names.
Pearl had quickly adapted to calling the parasite the Trick and never got shouted at. James hadn’t said anything to Matt yet—partly because, again, he couldn’t move—but Anai
