“But why separate them?”
“What the hell is a preemie?” Hal asks.
“A junior member of the cult,” Jenny says.
“It is impossible to deprogram a preemie with another preemie present. The deprogramming process is intensely personal. Part of the technique is to bombard a preemie with very personal things, statements about his family, events from his past, those kinds of things, as part of an effort to get his thought processes going again, to stimulate his emotions, his sympathies, even his insecurities and fears. As long as another preemie is present, they will prop each other up, reinforce the teachings and keep up that invisible wall that keeps everyone but Misha out.”
“And what’s to happen to Bradley after we separate him from Josh?”
“I don’t know,” Henry says sympathetically, shaking h
