The found him on the bed, eyes blank, his body asleep, the patch on his left temple hooked to the small translucent box pulsing on the night table, with a yellow sticky note tacked on it, that said "moved in Jeannette, back in 2 hours". So he moved out again, even now that it was an unlawful thing to do. They were upset. He had not kept his promise. They rang up Jeannette's house, hoping to get her parents first, but the girl picked up the phone herself. They asked their son to come back immediately, otherwise they all would be in trouble. They would get an hefty fine, he might even go to jail. His answer was crude and rude. The girl slammed the receiver down. Once again, they were left with his inert body, with nothing else to do but feed it and bathe it and massage it, and wait until its owner deigned to return. If he came back at all. Newspapers still ran tragic stories of possessive lovers who had the loved one moved in, and then kept him, or her, imprisoned forever, a ghost in a remote brain area. 2 become 1 : a nightmare come true. Science was unable to prove the theft, and to free the prisoner if the jailer was unwilling to do so. Even worse, moved-in who moved out after a long period were deeply altered by their host's personality, as far as to be unrecognisable by the people they knew and usually lived with. Their son was already showing Jeannette's imprint, her built-in rebellion and permanent outrage. His natural self would never