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I squirted mustard on the bread and turned aether and he clarified, “A game of chance for money?”

I nodded

His lips thinned

Oh boy

“What?” I asked

“Cora has a gift Most would use it for good I could see she would not”

That didn’t sound good

“What gift?” I asked

“She excels with nu cards Cora was playing poker and counting cards

Shit!

“This isn’t good,” Iit from its plastic

“What’s that?” Tor asked and I looked at him to see his eyes on the cheese

“A?”

“Plastic wrap”

His hand came out and he took the plastic frona and went for another slice as he rubbed the plastic between his fingers

“Extraordinary,” he rade,” I informed him, his eyes came to me, brows up and I slapped the second slice of cheese on another piece of bologna and continued “Biodegrade, oes away It’s manmade It’s part of the reason this world is so… colorless”

He looked at the plastic and then set it aside

Acutely aware in a way I’d never been before of the waste I was creating, I opened another slice and slapped it on the last piece of bologna Gathering the pieces of plastic, I took the to buy Aain and then I decided to take us back to target

“If Cora’s gaood if someone suspects But we have another problem,” I told him

“And that would be?” he asked as I went back to the frying pan, turned off the burner and used a spatula to slide the pieces of bologna on the bread

“I had a visitor today,” I told hied to hook up with the Noctorno of this world They’re together The clothes you’re wearing are his He’s the one who toldon withon with hiood change It was also not a bad change

It was a very bad change

I turned my head to look at his face and I instantly realized my mistake

He’d been in love with her Maybe, by the look on his face, he still was The news that his as cheating on hioing down very well

Still, I felt for him and whispered, “Tor –”

“He visited today?” he asked in a soft, dangerous voice

“Uh… yes”

“He was here?”

“Ued

“With you?”

Uh-oh

“Uh…”

“With you, Cora?” he pushed

“Yes, of course, we… talked”

“And you know they, as you put it… hooked up?”