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guinea pigs for various products which sees the institute also being paid with the life expectancy for a no-sponsor or an orphan being fifteen years as by the time they're that age, the orphan in question is either dead, has escaped or been sent to a labor prison via a fabricated criminal record. After finishing a test involving a spray, the orphans head to their various spots and spend the evening, eating while communicating via the network, a system that allows them to talk to one another without the marshals knowing as the institute forbids direct contact, believing it could be lead to friendships and eventually a revolt. However, the next day on a trip back from a record company, the truck transporting them crashes. Cosmo and a friend, Francis (aka "Ziplock Murphy") manage to escape the wreckage, but are pursued by a warden, Redwood from the
Institute, Redwood having a reputation for making the lives of the no-sponsors he's guarding miserable. The chase takes them to the rooftops, where Redwood attempts to grab Ziplock, only for Ziplock's jumpsuit to rip, sending Cosmo and Ziplock falling into a wrecked generator. Ziplock is electrocuted and dies but Cosmo survives, albeit with multiple critical injuries, including several broken bones and a heart which begins to shut down. He begins seeing small blue creatures around him. When one lands on his chest and begins sucking his life out, three figures appear out of nowhere and kill the creature. Although the teens want to leave him, Cosmo begs them to take him with them, pleading to not be left to be eaten by the strange blue beings while knowing that Redwood will not let him return to the institute, alive. The group labels him a "Spotter" and, after some argument, take him with them before he passes out.
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used to be a cop before an accident killed his mother and almost killed him; and Lucien Bonn, nicknamed Ditto due to his habit of repeating what people say. Bonn had gene-splicing experiments performed on him as a baby to produce a "super-human"; however, these experiments did nothing except stunt his growth, making Ditto appear six in spite of his true age of twenty-eight. Mona reveals that the creatures, called
Parasites, can only be seen after near-death experiences or severe trauma; Stefan can see them from his accident as a policeman, Mona can see them from a car crash in which Stefan saved her after her gang left her for dead, and Ditto can see them as a result of the gene-splicing experiments. Their group, the eponymous Supernaturalists, attempts to save people from the life-sucking Parasites by destroying as many of the blue creatures as possible. Cosmo is left to recover and is eventually included in their group after proving his worth by saving Mona with Cosmo using his past at the institute to identify a virus that's affecting her, resulting in Cosmo, Stefan and Ditto eating some flowers which they eventually use to expel the virus from Mona's body.
325: – A "Bartoli Baby" being the product of the gene splicing experiments done by a Dr. Bartoli 28 years before the story began. He suffers several mutations because of the experiments, such as arrested physical development (Ditto is 28 years old but appears to be about six). Ditto has "healing hands" (the ability to take the pain from a person or animal's body) and is a spotter. He pointed out to the rest of the Supernaturalists near the book's end that the Parasites actually feed on human pain, not on human life force as thought earlier (Ditto was caught by Mona deliberately cutting his finger and offering the pain to a parasite, proving that he knew this secret all along but never told anyone). He is the medic of the group, and does not fight the Parasites, claiming he is a pacifist. He is the first one to go in the group, since Stefan was the one who created the group.
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Parasites contained beneath the floor. Stefan is shot by a sniper higher in the room, and President Faustino reveals herself. Faustino tells them that Parasites can be used to "scrub" energy, and she is using the Parasites to make a clean nuclear reactor to keep the Satellite up; the Satellite wasn't falling because of Parasites, but because it had too many attachments on it. After provoking and distracting her, Stefan uses some of his remaining strength to grab onto Faustino in a dead man's grip, and when the sniper attempts to shoot him again he lets his knees buckle, causing the bullet to miss him and break the Parasites' containment cell. The Parasites take Stefan's pain from him as he dies, and Cosmo, Mona, and Ditto escape.
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Redwood who's been placed on leave since the incident that saw Cosmo escape takes Cosmo hostage. Although the bomb doesn't kill any humans, it shorts out the building's security, allowing the orphans to leave after Cosmo has revealed himself, noting this is the only chance they'll get to make a clean break. While Cosmo and Stefan are out, Mona discovers Ditto communicating with a Parasite. When Cosmo, Stefan, and Mona confront him, Ditto claims that Parasites don't take life force, only pain. Not knowing what to believe anymore, Stefan orders Ditto to be out by the next day, but Myishi paralegals capture them all that night.
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307:– The main protagonist of the novel. Found on Cosmonaut Hill, from which he was named. He was sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. He was almost killed on an escape attempt along with his best friend (Francis "Ziplock" Murphy), but Cosmo was "saved" by a group of kids who at the time still believed that the Parasites fed on life force, and not pain. He was 14 years old when recruited into the group. Although he has no experience as a medic or spotter, he saves Mona Vasquez a number of times.
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313:– Stefan is an eighteen-year-old of Russian descent with spiky black hair, presumably tall. His mother was killed in a car accident, later revealed to be due to a bomb planted on the car by Ellen Faustino. He has the worries of someone much older than he is, despite being so young. He is also the leader of the Supernaturalists.
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355: – The Marshal who is very strict to Cosmo and all the other no-sponsors. He has cruel tendencies, such as knowingly saying he'd wrap Cosmo and Ziplock when they were on the roof, despite the duo mentioning they would not be able to be taken out of the cellophane for hours.
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