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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Cosmo, Parasites, Satellite entitled The Supernaturalist?
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conversations.value: The Supernaturalist: The Supernaturalist takes place in Satellite City, a large city in an unspecified location in the Northern Hemisphere, in the third millennium.\nMuch of Satellite City is controlled by the Satellite, owned by Myishi Corporation.\nBy the time of the novel, however, the Satellite is losing links to the surface, causing disasters that range from mild to catastrophic.\nThe book opens with an introduction to Cosmo Hill, an orphan at the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys.\nAt the Institute, the boys are used as human guinea pigs for various products.\nHowever, on a trip back from a record company, the truck transporting them crashes.\nCosmo and a friend, Frances (aka "Ziplock") manage to escape the wreckage, but are pursued by a warden from the Institute.\nThe chase takes them to the rooftops, where Cosmo and Ziplock fall into a wrecked generator.\nZiplock is electrocuted but Cosmo survives, albeit with multiple critical injuries, including several broken bones and a heart which begins to shut down.\nHe begins seeing small blue creatures around him.\nWhen one lands on his chest and begins sucking his life out, three figures appear out of nowhere and zap the creature.\nAlthough 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 baddies.\nThe group labels him a "Spotter" and, after some argument, take him with them before he passes out.\nCosmo wakes up in a warehouse to find his injuries being mended, including a cast on his leg and a steel plate in his head to heal his fractured skull.\nOne of the group, teenage Latina and ex-mechanic Mona Vasquez, introduces herself, and tells Cosmo about the other two: Stefan Bashkir, another teen, who 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.\nBonn 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.\nMona 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.\nTheir group, the eponymous Supernaturalists, attempts to kill as many Parasites in Satellite City as possible, saving people from the life-sucking Parasites.\nAt first, Cosmo is left alone to recuperate.\nHowever, the Supernaturalists come home one night, Mona suffering seizures after getting hit by a poisoned dart, and Cosmo saves her; he had tested those poisoned darts at the orphanage, and knows the correct cure.\nAfter this, Cosmo is accepted into the gang and starts going out Parasite-blasting with them.\nOne night, the Supernaturalists stalk out a drag race, as the potential for fatal crashes, and Parasites, is large.\nHowever, one of the cars is a prototype stolen from Myishi Corporation, who track it down and send a squad of paralegals ("hit lawyers") to take it back.\nIn the following firefight, Cosmo and Stefan are captured by Myishi.\nThey are taken to Ellen Faustino, the president of Myishi, who reveals herself to be a Spotter.\nShe says that energy discharged by the Parasites is forcing the Satellite into an incorrect orbit and causing it to fall out of the sky.\nShe also reveals that the method the Supernaturalists are using to kill the Parasites is only causing them to reproduce faster, increasing the problem with the Satellite.\nAfter some discussion, she reveals that she has a plan to kill the Parasites: detonate an electrical bomb in the Parasite hive that contaminates them and eventually kills them.\nHowever, she does not know where the hive is, and sets the Supernaturalists to find the hive.\nAfter several dead ends, Cosmo hits upon the idea to use the Satellite to scan for the Parasite hive.\nDue to an extremely long wait time to get a space on the Satellite, they take an illegal spaceship up to do the scan themselves and find that the hive is under Clarissa Frayne.\nCosmo and Stefan take the electric bomb under the orphanage and detonate it.\nAlthough the bomb doesn\'t kill any humans, it shorts out Clarissa Frayne, allowing the orphans to leave.\nStefan directs them to a friend of his.\nWhile Cosmo and Stefan are out, Mona discovers Ditto communicating with a Parasite.\nWhen Cosmo, Stefan, and Mona confront him, Ditto claims that Parasites don\'t take life force, only pain.\nNot knowing what to believe any more, Stefan orders Ditto to be out by the next day, but Myishi paralegals capture them all that night.\nWhile imprisoned, Faustino reveals to the Supernaturalists that the bomb didn\'t kill the Parasites,that they do indeed take away pain, not life, and that she captured them to use for her own ends; she\'s going to kill the Supernaturalists to not leave any loose ends.\nShe also tells Stefan that she caused the accident that killed his mother; it was part of an experiment to create a Spotter.\nAfter she leaves, Cosmo head-butts them free, using the steel plate in his head.\nThe group finds Faustino in a lab with Parasites contained beneath the floor, but Stefan gets shot right next to his heart by a sniper hidden in the rafters.\nFaustino 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.\nStefan gets Faustino in a dead man\'s grip, and when the sniper attempts to shoot him, he lets his knees buckle, causing the bullet to miss him and break the Parasites\' containment cell.\nThe Parasites take Stefan\'s pain from him as he dies, and Cosmo, Mona, and Ditto escape.\nThe book ends with the rest of the Supernaturalists getting ready to fight unspecified "other supernatural creatures", and the mayor of Satellite City sends Faustino to Antarctica to continue working on a nuclear plant.\nAlso it is hinted that Mona and Cosmo are beginning to become more open with their feelings for each other.
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conversations.value: What is the first four paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: The Supernaturalist
  SATELLITE CITY: THE CITY Of the FUTURE, proclaimed the billboards. A metropolis completely controlled by the Myishi 9 Satellite hovering overhead like a floating man-of-war. An entire city custom constructed for the third millennium. Everything the body wanted, and nothing the soul needed. Three hundred square miles of gray steel and automobiles.
  Satellite City. A supercity of twenty-five million souls, each one with a story more heartbreaking than the last. If it's happy-ever-afters you want, stay away from the city of the future.
  Take Cosmo Hill, for example, a nice-enough boy who had never done anything wrong in his short existence. Unfortunately, this was not enough to guarantee him a happy life, because Cosmo Hill did not have a sponsor. And in Satellite City, if you didn't have a sponsor and they couldn't trace your natural parents through public-record DNA files, then you were sent to an orphanage until you reached adulthood. And by that time you were either dead, or the orphanage had fabricated a criminal record for you so you could be sold to one of the private labor prisons.
  Fourteen years before we take up the thread of this story, baby Cosmo was discovered swaddled in an insulated Cheery Pizza envelope on Cosmonaut Hill in Moscowtown. The state police swabbed him for DNA, searched for a match in the Satellite mainframe, and came up blank. Nothing unusual about that—orphans turn up every day in the city. So the newly christened Cosmo Hill was dipped in a vaccine vat and sent on a tube to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. Freight class.
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conversations.value: What is five more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Cosmo lay on his back, staring at the ceiling. Sleep would not come. There was too much happening inside his head. Supernaturalists, Parasites, Sweethearts, Bulldogs, a Bartoli baby, and, of course, Mona.
  Thank goodness he had only declared his affection for a vat man. Mona would probably laugh in his face. Not that he would ever see her again. Cosmo had no doubt that once they DNA typed him and found out who he was, he'd be on the first tube back to Clarissa Frayne and Marshal Redwood.
  The vat man led him down a long corridor to a bank of elevators. There were two solid yellow lines on the floor, with scuffed linoleum between.
  The vat attendant stood before the camera, smoothing his hair with one licked hand. "I got the kid here. The one who junked the tank."
  There was no reply, but the door slid open noiselessly. "In you go, sweetheart," said the man pushing Cosmo inside.
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conversations.value: What is the last four paragraphs?
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conversations.value: He looked up. There were tears in Mona's eyes, but she was smiling. He stood slowly, suddenly wondering if the plate in his forehead was sticking out. "I owe you a kiss."
  Of course, Ditto chose this moment to return with an armful of pazzas. "Oh spare me," he said, throwing an empty wrapper in the recycler. "Now I'm going to have to put up with you two making doe eyes every time we go out hunting supernatural creatures."
  Ditto began tinkering with the back of his favorite TV. "Parasites? Who said anything about them? Let me tell you, there are a lot worse things than Parasites. Just because you two can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. I'm sensitive, remember. A Bartoli baby. Nothing hides from me."
  Ditto took a huge bite from his second pazza. "Believe me," he mumbled through a mouthful of food, "the Supernaturalists' work is far from over. But we do need some equipment. What do we have left?"