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Until Rhea spoke a single guttural word, that was. Things in all worlds. She was alarmed to see that there were tears standing in his eyes. He didn’t want to.

And now you tell me they aren’t what they claim to be. “The three young fellows from In-World have broken their way out of jail, with that haughty young bitch’s help,” he said, pointing at Susan’s departing back. That night the Cöos slept soundly for the first time in a week, and when she took the glass ball into her arms the following morning, its mists cleared for her at once. Or, as we used to say back in the neighborhood, ‘You can rank me to the dogs and back, but I’ll never lose the hard-on I use to fuck your mother.