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You told me that yourself more than once. So I will make you free of it in the face of your strenuous demand. The north remembers. And yet somehow, MacReady stayed in charge.

Mere sex between them didn’t seem very likely, but mopping up food and levering withered limbs in and out of stairlifts was merely the tip of the iceberg of the tasks minders were required to perform. “He’s been asking me about terraforming,” Leah said, thinking. “Warning signs are marching,” Jackie reported. With a crisp air of finality, he said, Then I leave.