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“What? How do you know that?” Eugene gives her a startled look.
“I Split to the Mind Dimension just now, of course,” Mira replies. “Then I walked back to the hospital and Read the people there. I had to see if I could learn something more than Darren discovered about our enemy.”
“And,” Eugene prompts impatiently.
“And I didn’t find any sign of the bastard. Only that tell-tale presence Darren described in the woman’s mind.” She looks upset as she says this.
“But how do you know it’s the same Pusher?” Eugene asks.
“I just feel it. I can’t explain it,” she says curtly, and I know exactly what she means. There was almost a tone of voice to the Pushing instructions I glimpsed in the nurse’s mind—the same tone that I heard in the Russian mobster’s head the other day.
“What did the peop
