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It was settled, then I s my brain to slow its rapid patter If I burned too hot for too long, I would go limp and useless--I would sleep--and so I had developed h Latin declensions worked best Amo, a through the declensions for the body (corpus has a lovely sound), but tonight I only wanted the word for king

Rex, regis, regi, regee I inhaled one final time Waited a beat, then exhaled the ses Regibus I appreciated that flip and repetition: the dative, the accusative, the ablative It had a certain musicality I’ve always loved a counterturn

I stabbed out the cigarette Forty-eight minutes had passed I asked the pilot to please start up the helicopter again and kept

"You win," Lena said

"You know, you look cute in a flight suit," Toet you one, too"

"Did yours come with Milo’s chopper?"

"No," she said "I just had it lying around"

He grinned at her Soon, they were kissing Noisily I hadn’t put on my protective headphones earlier, but I did now

When the door finally opened, August and Watson cah it, followed by a sainst his face He was sporting several bandages and a limp, but I was pleased to see he still moved with his usual stubborn determination

"Are you fit to travel?"

"Yeah," he said I had to read his lips, with all the noise "Nothing happened to you in that warehouse?"

"I happened to that warehouse"

He smiled, and then he winced in pain

"Try not to move your face," I advised "Do you re there?" Watson said it with so for us to hurry up He’d take us to the airport, and we’d hop on Lena’s father’s company jet Coe group of people, and I didn’t want us to be conspicuous

That would co inin the world could replace it

"Well," I told him, "I have a mask for you to wear"

I’D HEARD IT SAID BEFORE THAT PRAGUE WAS A FAIRY-TALE city Watson repeated it noe ression in fros, cobbled roads and switchbacks An astronoh in a public square I’d been there once before with Milo ere children Our Aunt Ara" I think she may have mistaken us for bacteria