”Shiron fired the gun … and woke in a city she didn’t recognize, whose inhabitants spoke a dialect she had never heard before, whose technology she mostly recognized from historical dramas. Audrey stands in the lobby, reading the Herald on the public monitor. Michael nodded. Cats with sapphire claws clung to its walls like sleek gargoyles.
It’s like the mind can’t stop thinking about the grotesque, and can’t stop forgetting about the likely. The effort slows him, and the next slope is dark and very slick and slow, and that’s how the others pass him. I’m planning to follow your trail tomorrow, go and talk to Rosa and make sure everything’s okay with her. I don’t know what’s going to happen when I meet other elephants.
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