His limbic brain and physical body had become the enemy. All his subconscious wanted was to be cuddled and taken care of as it had been when he was eight months old. His mind had been denied its home as his cortical complex had been taken over by a much younger self. For the first time, one of Krystyn’s victims had defeated her subliminal programming and managed to survive relatively intact, albeit imprisoned in a walled-off neural fortress of its own making. Andrew isolated his section of the brain by creating a “dead” zone around the tissue he occupied, severing all dendrite connections except his sensory input nerves.