Rockabuy Baby Scene 163

The adult minds of Krystyn’s former charges that had tried the same tactic in the past had walled themselves off completely or left themselves with too few sensory inputs. Those who had made that fatal error had deteriorated into infancy within days at most. As for the minds who had found a means to resist, their adult psyche’s had deteriorated into fully encysted madness or had degenerated into an infantile state and their patterns had been absorbed by the surrounding tissues. Andrew’s young agile mind had instinctively chosen the middle course and had thus escaped the fate that had had taken all of her other victims.