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began its passage through their world. Already, he knew, the viricide was cutting an ever-widening swath through the prairie of capim surrounding the colony; by now it must already have passed into other forests, the descolada, helpless now, giving way as the mute and passive recolada took its place. All these changes couldn't possibly take place in hell.
"I guess I'm still alive," he said.
"And so am I," she said. "That's something, too. Peter and Val, they're not the only people to spring from your mind."
"No, they're not," he said.
"We're both still alive, even if we have hard times coming."
He remembered what lay in store for her, the mental crippling that was only weeks away, and he was ashamed of himself for having mourned his own losses. "Better to have loved and lost," he murmured, "than never to have loved at all."
"It may be a clich‚," said Jane, "but that doesn't mean it can't be true."
Chapter 18 -- THE GOD OF PATH
<I couldn't taste the changes in the descolada virus until it was gone.>
<It was adapting to you?>
<It was beginning to taste like myself. It had included most of my genetic molecules into its own structure>
<Perhaps it was preparing to change you, as it changed us.>
<But when it captured your ancestors, it paired them with the trees they lived in. Whom would we have been paired with?>
<What other forms of life are there on Lusitania, except the ones that are already paired?>
<Perhaps the descolada meant to combine us with an existing pair. Or replace one pair-member with us.>
<Or perhaps it meant to pair you with the humans.>
<It's dead now. It will never happen, whatever it planned.>