Time After Time (20 page)
Authors: Kay Hooper
“But?”
“I don’t know that there is a but. Except that the tolerances of the human brain are likely to be higher than those of the human mind.”
Quentin worked that out. “You mean she may not be adjusting to all this quite as easily as she appears to be. Emotionally. Psychologically.”
“That’s exactly what I mean. So I’d rather keep her close for now. So far, every one of these dump
sites has been just that, with no evidence that the killer remained behind in the area. At every site so far, we’ve collected evidence, asked a few questions and explored a few dead ends, then moved on.”
“So … less intensity to trigger something new in Hollis?”
“That,” Miranda said, “would be the theory. It isn’t something we can keep up indefinitely, for obvious reasons. But short of ordering her to take a sabbatical, which would not go over well at all, it’s the best temporary solution we’ve been able to come up with.”
“You and Bishop?”
Miranda nodded. “It doesn’t fix the problem—assuming the pace of Hollis’s development as a psychic
is
a problem—but we’re hoping it’ll at least offer her a little breathing space. More time to adjust to what’s been happening to her, to work on her investigative skills rather than her psychic ones.”
“Okay.” Quentin looked around, suddenly and obviously uneasy. “Great theory. But I’m beginning to think this creepy but calm investigation of ours might be turning into something else. Like one of the more intense ones. Because they should be back by now, shouldn’t they?”
Time After Time
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2009 Bantam Books Mass Market Edition
Copyright © 1986 by Kay Hooper
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Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Originally published in paperback in the United States by Bantam Books in 1986.
eISBN: 978-0-553-90703-2
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