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Susan shut her eyes and felt the earth falter under her She kept going, into the fiery plaza, seeing nothing

They locked the door of their hotel roo in the dark, and the room tilted under thehter in the plaza

"What a da us up and down like ani his drinks I should have killed him then!" His voice was nearly hysterical "He even had the nerve to use his real na about s My God, I should have pulled thee When I didn't do it, it set me off from the others; it madehim think, Here's a man who never wore pants, a man used to breech unifor us away!"

"No, no, it was h heels--that did it Our haircuts--so new, so fresh Everything about us odd and uneasy"

He turned on the light "He's still testing us He's not positive of us--not completely We can't run out on hio to Acapulco leisurely"

"Maybe heis sure of us, but is just playing"

"I wouldn't put it past hiot all the ti us back to the Future sixty seconds after we left it Heat us"

Susan sat on the bed, wiping the tears fro the old smell of charcoal and incense

"They won't make a scene, will they?"

"They won't dare They'll have to get us alone to put us in that Time Machine and send us back"

"There's a solution then," she said "We'll never be alone; we'll always be in crowds We'll make a million friends, visit markets, sleep in the Official Palaces in each town, pay the Chief of Police to guard us until we find a way to kill Siuise ourselves in new clothes, perhaps as Mexicans"

Footsteps sounded outside their locked door

They turned out the light and undressed in silence The footsteps went away A door closed

Susan stood by thelooking down at the plaza in the darkness "So that building there is a church?"

"Yes"