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"What are you looking at?" Alicia said "Get out of here"

The jaws cla sound and the viral spat the eround Alicia’s stoer; she hadn’t eaten for a week The viral extended its claws, petting the air like a cat It cocked his head: What sort of being is this?

"Go on" She waved the torch like a pike "Shoo Scat"

A last look, al had already prepared for daybreak by drawing the shades He was sitting at his usual table on the balcony above the ht His eyes lifted as she approached

"Good hunting?"

Alicia took a chair "I wasn’t hungry"

"You should eat"

"So should you"

His attention returned to his book Alicia glanced at the title: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

"I went to the library"

"So I see"

"It’s a very sad play No, not sad Angry" Fanning shrugged "I haven’t read it for years It seee, looked at her, and raised a professorial finger "Have a listen"

The spirit I have seen

May be the devil, and the devil hath power

T’ assu shape; yea, and perhaps

Out of my weakness and my melancholy,

As he is very potent with such spirits,

Abuses rounds