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“Wind,” she said “Oh ht I’d be outside It’s so beautiful”

Aot a lot to do with context, I guess”

He was hungry and thirsty Wet They didn’t have shelter or clothes, and the only gun they had, they’d need to haul around a dead ot cold, anyway

“Well, fuck,” he said “Where do we go froht?”

Clarissa extended a thin ar behind the clouds and stratospheric debris, a perfect, pale disk “Luna,” she said “Staying on the planet’s going towhen the food runs out And the water”

“I was thinking that too”

“There are yachts I knohere the family kept them But it’s a spaceport for rich people Tons of security Wein”

“I know some people,” Amos said “I mean, y’know If they’re still alive”

“That’s a plan, then,” she said, but didn’tahichinto her brain So that was one proble back on the deadhers A little rest see soon It was a long walk back to Balti that, a couple of bicycles His ear was starting to lose its angry throb He’d probably be able to walk soon

In the black sky, the pale circle dimmed behind a thicker roil of cloud and ash, then vanished for aback

“It’s funny,” Clarissa said “Most of hu to the ination And then, for a while, it was an adventure And then it was trivial Yesterday, it was trivial And now, it’s alain”

“Yeah,” Amos said, “well…”

He felt her shift, tuning her head as if to see him better “What?”

He gestured up toward the sky “Pretty sure that’s the sun I get what you’re saying though”

Chapter Twenty-seven: Alex