But my brother was a symbiont, and I had not seen him since the change.

The symbionts are going to need my help more than they ever have before.

"Or I can give the symbiont a fighting chance at having another life."

Should something happen to the symbiont, then the host won't last long.

Maybe the symbionts don't share everything when they join with us.

And those symbionts required his protection, now more than ever.

They are symbionts within all other living things and without them life could not exist.

I feel weak because my body needs the symbiont again.

Both Bob and the symbiont felt that the question, for some reason, surprised her.

"All the easier for the symbiont to get to work, according to Medical."

"We'll have to find another way to get the symbiont into the core."

I'm not reading any symbiont life signs on this floor.

"It's the same symbiont she has inside her right now!"

And for our part, all we cared about was the symbiont reading.

"What's the benefit of having a symbiont if you don't learn from past lives?"

"Would I have had the courage to give up my symbiont the way the president did?"

But since he is dead, for the first time in centuries I am the symbiont alone.

A whole family of symbionts could've set up house in there with room for guests.

He had told her the truth about two of his symbiont's histories.

Both the host and the symbiont were in danger of death now.

There appear to be no higher plants or animals without symbionts.

I think he tried to stop me from getting any symbiont at all."

The symbiont didn't need words to speak, its thoughts becoming her own again.

"I've only been working with the symbionts for the past couple of years.

"And you want us to believe that it didn't affect the symbiont?"