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Only Malik lay awake, half hearing the low drone of the television news His hts From time to time he would turn to look at Francis

Francis Specter, the girl who could h a fourth dimension

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ancis Specter, the girl who morphed untouched by the Dark Watchers

Only Francis

Because Francis was afreaks

You’re afraid of her

Silence

She wasn’t in the plan, was she?

Silence

Do you get movies there? Ever see Star Trek? There’s a famous line

Silence

Although it was actually from Herman Melville

Silence

Would you like to hear it?