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"Shut up," I said, "or I won’t take you on the Ferris wheel"

"You’re assuo"

"Of course you do" I paused "Do you?"

She s of mulled wine clasped between her hands A little bit of powdered sugar was on the tip of her nose

"Yes," she said "I want to"

We sto this thing where she’d lean against my arm for a second, but if I looked down at her, she’d pull herself away like a housecat caught on its back

"I want car number three," she said, e neared the front

"Why?" I asked

"Haven’t you been paying attention? It’s the one that’s the swingiest"

"Swingiest isn’t a word"

She smiled at me, that one particular smile I hardly ever saw, the one that could open padlocks, Yale locks, bank vaults, the one that was a trapdoor down into everything I reached out and touched the tip of her nose My finger caar

"It is now," she said quietly

The ride operator was appropriately toothless, and the boys above us kept throwing popcorn down at our heads, and when our car stopped, it didn’t stop at the top to give us a view of the city--instead, we jerked down to the stop before we disembarked, the perfect place to stare up at everyone else’s feet

"It only goes for two h her brown paper bag "I wish I had so to throw myself"

"You’ve never been to a carnival before?"

"I rode the London Eye withave us clothes for Christrow into’ She’s the sort of person air quotes were invented for"

"Leander said that the Moriartys killed her cats," I told her, and then blanched I hadn’tthat up Not just ere on the other side of this case (But are we on the other side of this case? a voice inso well

But Holmes just nodded "Totally did her in She sells honey, now, from her apiary, and doesn’t talk much to anyone I haven’t seen her in two or three years" Our spangledto let us off this thing?"