The Uninvited

there was some distinct spatial confusion,just after he attacked her. Since then, he’sbeen nonchalant. But his thinking’sdisjointed. He doesn’t remember he didit.’‘That’s the classic pattern.’ He sighsand pauses. ‘There’s been terrible . . .barbarity in response to this. Almost acounter-epidemic triggered by panic. Andspread by social networking of course.All that’s exploded as you can imagine.It’s similar to what we saw in some of thecross-species disease scares. Mostparents are desperate for their kids to snapout of it and go back to normal. But so farwe haven’t seen a single case of that.Word’s spreading that there’s no cure.Even though there might well be, if we canjust find it.’