"I really do think it's only a coincidence," Linda prompted, deciding to fill the silence I'd cast over us. Smiley and teasing shouts fluttered in the background. "Those people in the news fell into coma doing nothing-none of them were working or overexcited or anything. They just fell, all of them doing meaningless things." I opened my mouth to add something but she cut it with a pointed tilt of her head. "And I know what you're going to say but just one of them was reading-the woman you told me yesterday. The rest were watching TV or listening to music. I think a few of them were at the cinema, too-but not reading."
I shook my head with a sigh. "I don't know, Linda. There's something weird with them, I...I don't know how to explain it, but I feel it in my gut."
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