That made a certain amount of sense. It wouldn't be practical for them to kill off their food source so completely, and humans bred slowly. More like leeches, then, or mosquitoes. Not that Wallie had good experiences with mosquito bites.

"Okay. I can... I can live with that. I don't understand it, I don't know what to do with that information, but... I can live with that."

What -- who was she eating? Still, if her experience was anything like his own, he had to know more.

"If you don't mind, and we can back up a little, I wouldn't mind hearing about what you said about sharing a mind."