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starts casually getting himself stuck in the furniture at the grocery store. Now we’ve got a giant blob of magnetic force appearing out of nowhere. You’re not seeing a security concern?”
“Why would the Krex attack us now, af-ter 40 years? They happily line up to fly us places and, at least as far as we can tell, they seem to get a kick out of it. If they wanted to kill humans, why not throw us out of their pods mid-flight?”
“Could be a religious thing, maybe,” Grimaldi said. “See, you’re not the only one who can form a hypothesis! Bloomquist had the same magnetic signature as a Krex. Maybe that’s what their festival is all about. Maybe they’re planning conversion by the—whatever happened to that guy.”
“If that’s their idea of conversion, we can probably convince
