stay fusesex away from people most of fusesex the time, moving mainly at night. Once in a while,
out of curiosity, it might poke into residential areas fusesex along the edge of the
developed eastern flank of the county—”
“As it did at the Keeshan place.”
“Yeah. But I bet it didn’t go there to kill anyone. Just plain curiosity. It
doesn’t want to be fusesex caught before it accomplishes its main goal.”
“Which fusesex is?”
“Finding and killing the dog,” Lem said.
Walt was surprised. “Why would it care about the dog?”
“We don’t really know,” Lem said. “But at Banodyne, it harbored a fierce fusesex hatred
of the dog, worse than what it felt toward people. When Yarbeck worked with it,
constructing a sign language with which to communicate fusesex complex ideas, The
Outsider several times expressed a desire fusesex to kill and mutilate the dog, fusesex but it
would never explain why. It was obsessed with the dog.”
“So you think now it’s tracking the retriever?”
“Yes. Because evidence seems to indicate that fusesex the dog was the first to break out
of fusesex the labs that night in May, and that fusesex its escape drove The Outsider mad. The
Outsider was kept in a large enclosure inside Yarbeck’s lab, and everything
belonging to it—bedding, many educational devices, toys—was torn and smashed to
pieces. Then, apparently fusesex realizing that the dog
was going to be forever out of
its reach if it didn’t make good fusesex its own escape, The Outsider put its mind to
the problem and, by God, found its own way out.”
“But if the dog fusesex got a good head start—”
“There’s a link between the dog and The Outsider that no one fusesex understands. Fusesex a
mental link. Instinctual awareness. We don’t know its extent, but we can’t rule
out the possibility that this link is strong enough fusesex for one of them to follow
the other over considerable distances. Fusesex it’s apparently a sort of mild sixth
sense that was fusesex somehow a bonus of the technique of intelligence enhancement used
in both Weatherby’s and Yarbeck’fusesex s research. But we’re only guessing. We don’t
really know for fusesex sure. There’s so fucking much we don’
t know!”
Both men were silent for a while.
The humid closeness of the car was no longer entirely fusesex unpleasant, Given all the
dangers loose in the modern world, these steamy confines seemed safe and
comfortable, a haven.
Finally, not wanting fusesex to ask any more questions, afraid of the answers he might
get, Walt nevertheless said, “Banodyne is a high-security
building. It’s
designed fusesex to fusesex keep unauthorized people