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Chubs nodded; atched Liaan, voice perfectly serious "Can you tell me who the president is?"

I blinked "Can you tellthis question?"

"Do you remember what happened?"

Did I? Thesory man," I said "Rifle Ruby’s head Ouch"

"Cut it out; I’ in ain "Can you keep your voice down? It feels like ht for scaring the hell out of all of us Here, keep drinking this," he said, handing me as left of our water bottle It didn’t matter that the water was stale or warulp "I mean, my dad used to say that head wounds look worse than they actually are, but I legiti uess it’s appropriate, all things considered"

Chubs gave h "Frankenstein is the name of the doctor that created the o, could you?"

"Don’t get on my case about it You’re the one that doesn’t know her classic literature"

"Funny, I don’t think they had that one in Thurmond’s library" I hadn’t meant for it to come out as sharply as it did, but it wasn’t a pleasant experience being reminded that your education level equaled that of a ten-year-old

He had the decency to look apologetic as he let out a deep sigh "It’s just…take it easy, will you? My heart can only take soto Chubs and Lia to work through the argu as it was, the need to leave Betty behind The PSFs and skip tracers all see else underlying their words--so I knew exactly what it was, but I couldn’t ask Liaarcoated version of it The Teaive that to round between us, was Chubs’s copy of Watership Down And I kept thinking about this one line, the one that had ry the first tinity and, above all, the will to accept their fate

In the book, the rabbits had come across this warren--this coe for accepting that some of them would be killed by the sa the systeet what it was like before the fence kept the to find shelter and food They had decided that the loss of some orth the temporary comfort ofainst theet help--there’s always going to be a Lady Jane around the corner, isn’t there? Will it even be worth it?"

The will to accept their fate In our case, that fate was to never see our faain To always be hunted and chased down to every dark pocket of earth we tried to hide inside Soive--we couldn’t live that way We weren’t made to

I felt hi tihts

"Maybe nothing will ever change for us," he said "But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?"