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The rabbit was a delicacy

Roscoe thanked Edilio for being decent

Edilio closed the door Then he turned the key in the deadbolt

Quinn’s fisherood day The boats were reasonably full of fish, squid, octopi, and the weird things they called blue bats Those they fed to the zekes--the woretable pickers

The prize of theshark Quinn’s boat was actually cra on the tail as he rohich ard and would give hi A shark was a twofer: not only was it great eating, it was a coht to do," Cigar was saying as he pulled at his oar "We ought to sell the teeth at the mall I mean, did you see all those teeth? Kids would pay a ’Berto for, like, a necklace of teeth"

"Or they narly weapon," Elise suggested

"What do you think it weighs?" Ben wondered

"Ah, not ht kids just to haul the fish over the side into Quinn’s boat, and then they’d practically swaar plucked at his ragged T-shirt and revealed a hard, alhs et out, I’ a diet book The FAYZ diet First, you eat all the junk food you can Then you starve Then you eat artichokes Then you starve a little o on the all-fish diet"

"You left out the part where you fry up soed

They went on like this for a while, rowing their heavy-laden boat and bragging about the awful things they had eaten

Quinn noticed so time

"Hold up," he said

"Aw, is Captain Ahab tired of rowing?"

"You’ve got good eyes, Elise, look over there" Quinn pointed toward the barrier across a half mile of water

"What? It’s still there"

"Not the barrier The water Look at the water"