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"Not yet," I said. "And he might not be either. My guess is
he's not human. But human or not, Carl didn't hit him hard
enough to kill him."


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"But if he's not human, how do you know what it would
take to kill him?"

"You have a point."

"I wish I didn't."

The others were edging forward now. Zoya and Yuri drew
up closer and stopped.

"I wonder who he is," Yuri said. "What he is."

Daria came running with the medikit. I tore it open and
took out two remote monitoring transponders.

"Help me roll him over, John."

We were about to do so when Lori screamed.

I whirled. Carl was lying on the ground. Sean evidently
had caught him, and was now cradling Carl's head in his
arms.

"What happened?" John said.

Scan gently cuffed Carl's cheeks a few times. "Fainted
.dead away, he did. Just keeled over."

I went over and crouched beside them, took Carl's wrist

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and felt for his pulse. It was slow and thin, dangerously so.

"Is he okay?" Susan asked.

"Hard to tell," I said noncommittally. "Funny that he'd
pass out like that. Let me get a transponder for him."

"Carl?" Lori took my place as I got up. "Carl? Oh, no."