Part 1, Sections 5 and 6 Summary

"Waking - Month Two, Day Nineteen"

Eva, now able to move about freely, gets out of bed and sits in her mother's lap where her chimp-habit of grooming others (i.e. pulling parasites out of their hair) momentarily asserts itself. Eva stops, however, when she senses her mother's discomfort. Eva's mother reveals that all the research and procedures associated with Eva's transformation were paid for (sponsored) by SMI, the company that manufactures shapers and which, as part of their financing agreement with Dr. Pradesh, intends to produce as many documentaries about, and commercials with Eva as possible. Eva, who communicates through her keyboard and its voicebox (see again "Quotes," p. 3), reluctantly agrees, realizing that she is about to become both famous and a curiosity. She suggests, half-jokingly, that if she gets tired of all the attention she can just...