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"Because you’re not vicious enough to put up a good offense--trust me, that’s a co "But you are guarded You don’t show your cards to anyone There are times that you’re impossible to read"
"I don’t mean to be," I interrupted Clancy only waved ," he said "In fact, it’ll help you"
Well, it certainly hadn’t helpedto break into your head?" he asked "There’s a tingling sensation…"
"Yeah, I knohat you’re talking about What should I do when I feel it?"
"You have to push right back up against theht have been on In s you really want to protect, like memories or dreams? They have their own natural defenses You just need to add another wall"
"Every tiet into your head, it was like a white curtain blocked me"
Clancy nodded "That’s the way I do it When I feel the sensation, I push back the ie of that curtain and I don’t let up, notoyou wouldn’t necessarily want me or anyone else to see--and I want you to drop your own curtain down to protect it"
Iain, lacing our fingers "Come on," he said "What’s the worst that could happen? I see soh friends now that you can trust me when I say I won’t tell a soul about any falls or public puking"
"What about streaking and eating playground sand?"
He pretended to consider it for athat with the entire camp at dinner"
"What a fair, just leader you are," I said After a moment, I added, "Do you really considerthat because you want to see et my four front teeth knocked out when I tried to play soccer?"
Clancy shook his head and laughed His favorite stories always see to pretend I was a boy, or the fast-food binges my dad used to take me on when my mom was out of town at a teacher’s conference They were so con to his experience, I realized, that I must have seemed like an alien
"Of course I consider you lanced atwith a kind of intensity that made me feel like my head was full of air, ready to float away "I consider you a lot more than that"
"What do youforfor you It’s been a long ti through Being an Orange…you can’t compare it to what the others are They don’t understand us or e can do"