[stoichornet]

Simon grabbed the book. "Thanks." He got the window open and looked out; it seemed bizarre, and exhausting, to be having to run yet again, and part of him wondered whether he shouldn't just stay and risk it and have the eggs removed simply to stop having to worry about travel and food and how the hell these things would ever come out of him. Most of the other parts, though, feared blood and pain and suspected there would be a lot of both. "...a whole dimension of people and I keep running into the ones that want to do things to me, like I'm some sort of-"

He tapped Sparks' tail. "...I think it's time to go."