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T2 Infiltrator by S.M.
Stirling
PROLOGUE
A MOTEL, LOS ANGELES: 1995
Tarissa Dyson sat silent and motionless in the motel room's uncomfortable chair
and watched her children sleep. Blythe and Danny lay totally abandoned to it,
like puppies collapsed after a long, hard romp, dark lashes still against soft,
plump cheeks. They had wanted so desperately to stay awake for their father's
return, had fought so valiantly to keep their eyes open.

She felt a twinge of regret for not keeping them awake. But their constant refrain
of "Where's Daddy?" and "When's he coming back?" had strained her nerves to
the snapping point. She'd rather feel guilty for letting them get some much-
needed rest than for yelling at them when they were already so frightened and
stressed.


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She tried to steer her mind away from what had frightened them. Frightened
them and terrified me, she admitted to herself. The brutal image of the
Terminator peeling the flesh off the metal skeleton of its forearm flashed
unbidden into her mind's eye. That memory was like probing a broken tooth with
your tongue, at once painful and irresistible.

They were in a little motel off the interstate, clean but shabby, showing bare
spots in the tired carpet and worn patches on the arms of the sofa, smelling
slightly of disinfectant soap.

The Terminator had said that the T-1000 would probably go to their home,
extract information from whomever it found there, and then terminate them.

Terminate them. What a sterile way to put it.