He ducked that query. "I sought a man—one of the dead men, you would say. Definitely, very much a dead man. More machine than man, if he ever had a man’s heart. He murdered my father and mother." She nodded in a matter-of-fact way, as if such things happened regularly and routinely. "Over at the Fuchi laboratories, at Longstanton ... I was separated from a friend there, a man I haven’t seen in many years. He was helping me out of friendship. I hope he got away. He will be worried about me. I need to get back to let him know I’m still alive, for a start."