Summary

The BBC airs a news story about new mothers in a Ukrainian maternity hospital who claim that the staff took their newborns. The report describes a culture of the trafficking babies to harvest stem cells from their bone marrow.

Lev’s new traveling companion is Cyrus Finch, CyFi, who he met at the mall. CyFi is fifteen and black or umber as they call it. Racism is almost non-existent. He claims he’s not a runaway but has secrets. He won’t tell Lev his destination. CyFi was able to get the hungry Lev some food court fare. Lev worries about Connor and Risa. If they were caught, they’re probably unwound. Lev gets annoyed with CyFi and accuses him of putting on a black southern accent. CyFi claims he has two fathers and an IQ of 155. His IQ went down a...