I'm
sorry and that's all I can say. I thought someone your age would be..."
That rankled Cade a bit. "'Someone my age?' Would be what? That someone any
other age wouldn't be, that is."
Gazing hard at him across the table, Mandi said, "I'd very much appreciate
it if you wouldn't interrupt me when I'm speaking, Ed. I thought you'd be
considerably happier about being chosen for conversion."
"That's your word for it. 'Near-total alienation' is what I'm calling it for
the moment."
The waiter buzzed up to the table and asked Mandi what she'd like. She
ordered a coffee and the waiter told Cade that his lunch would arrive shortly,
then he buzzed away again.
Mandi sat back and said, "You crushed that steel rail in the stairwell. If
that's an indication of your progress, you'll be able to stop a tank round with
your bare hands in a week. You'll be bulletproof and no Earthly disease will be
able to touch you. You'll be stronger and faster than you can possibly imagine
and you may develop some of my other powers to a degree."
Pausing, Mandi sipped the water the waiter had brought her and added, "And
there's one more little thing.
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