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Jax squinted hard at hiirl is his ot so a load of Inspectors down on uess is that they are concentrated at the mill and the professor’s house Look, Jax, I need your help Everything has unraveled"

"Why should I stickroup," Cade said "What is our prioal?"

"To oust the eet rid of slavery at all levels"

"Yes, and the key to all thaton your bed"

"How could--"

"No time for explanations," Cade said "I’ll tell you what I need you to do But first, do you have a change of clothes? I’an floated through a strange series of visions with long stretches of darkness between Herat the oldher After that, she had blurred is to her she could not recall There were nightmarish tunnels and water And now she was on a bed Not her nice bed back at the professor’s but ot here? Where was here? She was clas At first everything was blurry then resolved into multiples Three or four of the same chair, three or four of the same table, and so forth The place s to somesaid It cae There were three of the nize him, but she couldn’t place him just now And, there was three of Cade Three of Cade stripping out of his clothes She watched in fascination as coat and vest ca, it was coats and vests

Off came his shirts, and there were the fine shoulders and chestchestsshe had seen before when he’d been at practice in the ar She could not say if this was a very nice drea, but she was quite enjoying it Cade, she thought, ell proportioned in every way--threefold!

All too soon he started to dress again He had soan started to slip into oblivion again, until she felt soht Cade’s wrist His real wrist, not an illusory one Cade yelped

"You’re awake," he said a heartbeat later

"A dry Jax pulled out this nightshirt for you"

Karigan blinked trying to see it clearly Cade reached to start unbuttoning her shirt She slapped his hand away

"I can do it" Just speaking took great effort, so she wasn’t sure she really could "Turn around"

Cade obediently crossed the roo his backs on her She struggled with buttons, fighting the darkness that tried to reabsorb her What rong with her? She didn’t feel hurt or injured, rather the opposite Just drifty, floaty, sort of happy She also knew this was so, and yet it did not perturb her like it should have

She’d have asked Cade about as happening, but it was hard when she was concentrating on peeling off wet garb Once she had succeeded, she pulled on the oversized nightshirt<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>