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"Berries and thorns," Orc said to hi to picture what Astrid had told hiht on the island He ate cheese--actual cheese that Albert’s careful survey of the house had found in a special cheese-aging room It had apparently never occurred to Caine and Diana, or to Sanjit before the Albert, had located and cataloged everything of any use in the mansion, and had done it all in just the few days he’d been there

Quinn had to admit: it never would have occurred to him, either The concept of a special cheese roorowing pot in a sreenhouse, but it had all died off when the poas cut back

In thehelp lower a massive wheel of Paroing back to thewould stay behind Pug had been taught to fire the un and had strict instructions to fire on anyone as not Albert

Anyone

It took Albert a while to get ready It was lunchti--after crackers and peanut butter, lovely, lovely peanut butter Quinn was trying hard not to regret the fact that it would now be back to the regular grind of work It was a long, hard row back to town--harder since Albert and his giant cheese were dead weight and Albert clearly was not going to take a turn at the oars Neither would the cheese

Alicia rowed for a while, but she was almost more trouble than she orth In the end she just put her feet up on the cheese and added to the dead weight

"The thing is," Albert said, "I did the logical thing with ht?"

Albert was in an unusually talkative mood, which just annoyed Quinn Generally when Quinn rowed, he slipped into a conte of life, but also less overwhel questions like Star Trek versus Star Wars, and why people would spend a fortune on so

"I’ me because I’m successful," Albert said "It’s probably inevitable"

And soht about Lana

Those thoughts never ended well The thing was, Quinn liked Sanjit And he was glad that Lana was happy, or at least as happy as Lana could get

"They don’t really have a right to hateActually, they owe me Without me they’d all have starved to death by now"