Summary

Grant and Gwen traveled to an old Victorian house where Eleanor had been taken. Her captors had implanted a BioNet into her brain, she said, which traced her brain’s activity and could download information from or onto it, which Grant called “a step toward MindMeld” (238). When Grant asked her whether she could tell the difference between her thoughts and the computers, she half-jokingly recited long passages from famous speeches made by Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Patrick Henry. Meanwhile, Eleanor’s legal team pivoted from the NettieFood case to freeing Eleanor, but they warned Grant of the lengthy and uncertain process, especially since they did not know exactly who was responsible for her arrest. On a second visit, Eleanor told her family she had resolved to thinking nothing so that the computer could not infiltrate her thoughts. As they prepared...