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."The girl fidgeted with the covers.I shouldn't have said that.He didn'tbelieve me."Is it true?"Carol Ann looked up.Yes," she said slowly.How do you do it?"The girl's brow creased.I don't know exactly.It just happens.I can feelit.Only usually I do it with other people.I don't get sick myself."What happened last night?"I already told the police."I mean afterward."After he shot me?"Yes."The girl's expression was fearful at first, but she took a deep breath andspoke quickly.I came to on the beach.Sort of."Sort of?"Not really, I guess.My body was still lying on the sand.I saw it."You saw your own body?"Carol Ann licked her cracked lips.I thought I did.And Nadine's,too."Cory poured some cold water into a glass and brought it to the girl'smouth.I went to Nadine, but there wasn't anything inside.She was dead." Thegirl's eyes filled.I think I was going to die too, but then I saw somethingand it made me go back.To my body, I mean.Does this sound stupid?"No.What did you see?" Cory asked.I don't remember.It was kind of like a dream.All I know is, I went back and then the ambulance came.One guy kept saying I wasn't going tomake it, but I knew I was.Especially after they gave me blood.It was weak,but I could still use it."Cory cocked her head.The blood? You can feel what kind of blood youhave?"I knew what they gave me was different.It had to go through my hearta couple of times.But then it was my own."So it was your blood that made you heal? Not your mind?"Carol Ann reached for the water again, grimacing as she lifted the glass.I don't know what it is.When other people are sick, I can draw the sicknessout of them.It goes into me, then out again.Maybe it goes through myblood.I just don't know.But I felt it working last night."Cory shifted in her chair.Have you always been able to do this?"Heal? Yeah, I guess so.But it's been getting stronger lately.In the lastfew weeks.Something's happening, I can smell it in the air.I can feel it.It's time for something."For what?"Carol Ann shook her head.I don't know.Just something.And it'scoming fast.Suddenly her eyes opened wide.I remember," she saidsoftly.What do you remember?"What I saw that made me go back to my body." She looked up at Cory.It was a volcano."Cory blinked.A volcano?"And a man standing near it.He was he was saying something." Sheshut her eyes tight.Her thin body trembled.What is it, Carol Ann? What did he say?"He said we would meet again.That the stranger would bring ustogether."The stranger?"That was why I had to come back.Why I have to stay alive,"Who's the stranger?"Carol Ann shook her head.I don't know."They stared into each other's eyes for a long moment.Finally Cory brokeher gaze away and looked down at her notes.Perhaps we should talk about the man who assaulted you," she said.Did you give the police a description of him?"Yes, but it doesn't matter."Why not?"He'll be dead soon," Carol Ann said.How do you know that? Did you know him?"No.I just saw it.The death ring." She reached out with her hand andtouched Cory's shoulder.You would have seen it too, I think."Cory felt herself breathing hard.Perhaps," she said, trying to force thememories of her childhood away.Carol Ann smiled.I'm glad I'm with you," she said.There'll be moreof us."Us?"Yes, you're part of this, too.But you aren't the stranger." Carol Ann's eyes grew glazed and distant.After a moment Cory reached for her pulse,but just then the girl's eyelids fluttered.She looked bewildered.That'sfunny," she said.I was in some other place just now.There were boats."Boats?"And smoke, and columns of water shooting straight up, and mud, a rainof mud.Her face contorted with fear.And the volcano."She lay back on the pillow.I'm tired," she said.I understand.I'll let you sleep."Carol Ann held Cory's hand tight.Stay with me for a while," she said.We've got to stay together.That's the only way we're going to make it."She closed her eyes.As she slept, Cory felt the girl's blood pulsing throughher fingers.The serology lab was in even greater disarray than the rest of the hospital.Krantz's two assistants, both young doctors, and two technicians werescurrying around, pausing occasionally only to curse doctor Krantz.He never told any of us anything," one of the technicians grumbledwhen Cory tried to talk to her about Krantz's research.Everything was abig secret.And now nobody around here can do dick."But your files are on your computers, aren't they?" Cory asked.The patients" files are in there.It's just the research he never entered."Would you mind if I looked through them? I have a couple of his patientswhose bloodwork I need to know about."Help yourself, Doctor.Holler if you need anything."Cory sat at one of the open computers in a corner of the lab.The codefor accessing blood records was printed on the machine with Magic Marker.She got into the computer and called up the file for Carol Ann Frye.Krantz's lab was thorough.Cory would certainly give them that.Eventhough the girl had only been brought in the previous night, her file contained a total blood profile.Type A B-positive, Cory read.She scanned thedata for glucose, urea nitrogen creatinine, uric acid, anion gap, bilirubin,cholesterol, and a score of other variables.To her practiced eye, all thereadingsi seemed in the normal range.She called up the file on Sam Smith.His blood type was O-negative.Hisreadings, too, all seemed to be in the normal range.There was simplynothing in a normal blood profile to indicate that there was anything unusualabout Sam Smith's blood.Except.she had almost missed the material at the very end of thereport, under the heading ICDL." 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."The girl fidgeted with the covers.I shouldn't have said that.He didn'tbelieve me."Is it true?"Carol Ann looked up.Yes," she said slowly.How do you do it?"The girl's brow creased.I don't know exactly.It just happens.I can feelit.Only usually I do it with other people.I don't get sick myself."What happened last night?"I already told the police."I mean afterward."After he shot me?"Yes."The girl's expression was fearful at first, but she took a deep breath andspoke quickly.I came to on the beach.Sort of."Sort of?"Not really, I guess.My body was still lying on the sand.I saw it."You saw your own body?"Carol Ann licked her cracked lips.I thought I did.And Nadine's,too."Cory poured some cold water into a glass and brought it to the girl'smouth.I went to Nadine, but there wasn't anything inside.She was dead." Thegirl's eyes filled.I think I was going to die too, but then I saw somethingand it made me go back.To my body, I mean.Does this sound stupid?"No.What did you see?" Cory asked.I don't remember.It was kind of like a dream.All I know is, I went back and then the ambulance came.One guy kept saying I wasn't going tomake it, but I knew I was.Especially after they gave me blood.It was weak,but I could still use it."Cory cocked her head.The blood? You can feel what kind of blood youhave?"I knew what they gave me was different.It had to go through my hearta couple of times.But then it was my own."So it was your blood that made you heal? Not your mind?"Carol Ann reached for the water again, grimacing as she lifted the glass.I don't know what it is.When other people are sick, I can draw the sicknessout of them.It goes into me, then out again.Maybe it goes through myblood.I just don't know.But I felt it working last night."Cory shifted in her chair.Have you always been able to do this?"Heal? Yeah, I guess so.But it's been getting stronger lately.In the lastfew weeks.Something's happening, I can smell it in the air.I can feel it.It's time for something."For what?"Carol Ann shook her head.I don't know.Just something.And it'scoming fast.Suddenly her eyes opened wide.I remember," she saidsoftly.What do you remember?"What I saw that made me go back to my body." She looked up at Cory.It was a volcano."Cory blinked.A volcano?"And a man standing near it.He was he was saying something." Sheshut her eyes tight.Her thin body trembled.What is it, Carol Ann? What did he say?"He said we would meet again.That the stranger would bring ustogether."The stranger?"That was why I had to come back.Why I have to stay alive,"Who's the stranger?"Carol Ann shook her head.I don't know."They stared into each other's eyes for a long moment.Finally Cory brokeher gaze away and looked down at her notes.Perhaps we should talk about the man who assaulted you," she said.Did you give the police a description of him?"Yes, but it doesn't matter."Why not?"He'll be dead soon," Carol Ann said.How do you know that? Did you know him?"No.I just saw it.The death ring." She reached out with her hand andtouched Cory's shoulder.You would have seen it too, I think."Cory felt herself breathing hard.Perhaps," she said, trying to force thememories of her childhood away.Carol Ann smiled.I'm glad I'm with you," she said.There'll be moreof us."Us?"Yes, you're part of this, too.But you aren't the stranger." Carol Ann's eyes grew glazed and distant.After a moment Cory reached for her pulse,but just then the girl's eyelids fluttered.She looked bewildered.That'sfunny," she said.I was in some other place just now.There were boats."Boats?"And smoke, and columns of water shooting straight up, and mud, a rainof mud.Her face contorted with fear.And the volcano."She lay back on the pillow.I'm tired," she said.I understand.I'll let you sleep."Carol Ann held Cory's hand tight.Stay with me for a while," she said.We've got to stay together.That's the only way we're going to make it."She closed her eyes.As she slept, Cory felt the girl's blood pulsing throughher fingers.The serology lab was in even greater disarray than the rest of the hospital.Krantz's two assistants, both young doctors, and two technicians werescurrying around, pausing occasionally only to curse doctor Krantz.He never told any of us anything," one of the technicians grumbledwhen Cory tried to talk to her about Krantz's research.Everything was abig secret.And now nobody around here can do dick."But your files are on your computers, aren't they?" Cory asked.The patients" files are in there.It's just the research he never entered."Would you mind if I looked through them? I have a couple of his patientswhose bloodwork I need to know about."Help yourself, Doctor.Holler if you need anything."Cory sat at one of the open computers in a corner of the lab.The codefor accessing blood records was printed on the machine with Magic Marker.She got into the computer and called up the file for Carol Ann Frye.Krantz's lab was thorough.Cory would certainly give them that.Eventhough the girl had only been brought in the previous night, her file contained a total blood profile.Type A B-positive, Cory read.She scanned thedata for glucose, urea nitrogen creatinine, uric acid, anion gap, bilirubin,cholesterol, and a score of other variables.To her practiced eye, all thereadingsi seemed in the normal range.She called up the file on Sam Smith.His blood type was O-negative.Hisreadings, too, all seemed to be in the normal range.There was simplynothing in a normal blood profile to indicate that there was anything unusualabout Sam Smith's blood.Except.she had almost missed the material at the very end of thereport, under the heading ICDL." 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