Chapter 36
{Sergio, it’s Val. Are you there?}
{Yes. I was beginning to think that I had imagined you.}
{I’m real, and I’ve been telling my sister about you,} he sent.
{You have a sister who is like us?}
{Not just a sister. Several members of my family are like us.}
{Can I talk to them?}
{They’re too far away. Somehow I can talk to her, but she can’t talk to you from where she is.}
{Where is that?} he sent.
{We live in another country.}
{What country?}
{I’m not allowed to tell you that right now.}
{Why not?}he sent.
{Because my father is gonna get you transferred to a hospital near us.}
{Not another place like this, I hope.}
{I don’t think so. All I know is that it’ll be a hospital, and the doctors there will decide what to do.}
{They’ll think I’m crazy too,} he sent.
{No, they won’t. My brother is one of them, and he knows what we are.}
{What are we?}
{Telepaths.}
{I don’t know what that means,} he sent.
{It’s a word to describe people who can read minds.}