“You don’t have to treat me with kid gloves,” Lily told Sam. “Tell me everything about what happened to Josh. Don’t leave anything out.”
“I do not understand what you say. I cannot wear gloves. I do not have hands.”
“Sorry. That’s just an old expression my mom uses. It means I do not want you to treat me like a child. I want you to tell me everything you know about Josh’s disappearance. Don’t leave anything out … no matter how awful it is.”
“Lily, the only thing we know is that Josh’s brain was captured by people living outside Borealis, in the future.”
“How did they do that?”
“We know these people do not have the power to travel through time. Therefore, they could not bring his whole body into the future. However, it appears they have the technology to capture and bring brain waves from the past. We think they did it by following the path of the radio signals from the cell phone Josh used when he communicated with you from the past to the future—through the Time Portal.”
“Why did they take—him—his brain? What do they want with him? How do we get him back?”
“We have not figured that out yet.”