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If she truly examined his behaviour, she had to admit that his treatment of her had not been that of a brother towards his sister, as she had imagined. Rather it could only be that of an eager young man, carefully courting all night the young woman he wished to charm. And to his eyes, and that of anyone upstairs who had been observing, all night she had eagerly welcomed his advances.
 

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Silvery light bubbling from depths she could never quite visually comprehend.
 

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“It really is too late,” Sean explained to Michael.
 

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I just have so much hope bubbling up inside me, threatening to burst out and spook him. And I’ve never been spooky.
 

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“Makes perfect sense to me.”
 

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He goes into a description of the game, and I don’t understand half of it, but as he dances around the air, acting like he’s all the players in the game — I don’t really know how many players there are; he’s pretended to be, like, five — swinging imaginary bats and sliding through the air to “steal” something, I definitely don’t have the attention to do a working.
 

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There was no way in hell I was resting, not so early in the evening, and not with Rick being Rick, but I would do anything to avoid rhubarb-infused dreams, so I tossed him the dishrag and flopped onto another kitchen chair.
 
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"I don't know either. Still...if they were gods, why did they die out? And the inhabitants on the forbidden planet... If they're just like us, why did the builders make them and then left them there?"
 
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“I’ve never belonged anywhere so well as I belong here,” Liria smacks the captain seat of the ship and it spins a bit, as if in response, “safe in my girl, carrying thousands of specs worth of illegal material through intergalactic airspace.”
 
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There was something in his words, a sharpness hidden in his cool, even tone, that made me wince.
 
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Sometimes they’re just too much.
 
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She’d be sixteen by the time they got there. She knew for a fact that the Oerl could drill through space itself and get them there in an instant. But they didn’t offer that technology to the Ellesmeric people. And she kind of didn’t blame them. What if the elderfather could spread the Community around the universe instantaneously? It was bad enough spreading it to the next star.
 
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"You heard her," Temlin said. "Now, just shut up and let everyone rest."
 
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Dad brought up the rear and I walked by him, out of place, noting every detail in my head as if I was living in a story.
 
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“You have a scar,” Dawn whispers, one trembling finger held aloft, pointing at Ever’s neck. “Right there, hidden beneath the clasp of your veil.”
Ever goes grey. “How did you…”
“You don’t hide it so much,” Dawn says. “In the future. Maybe it doesn’t hurt you anymore.”
“It doesn’t—” Ever pushes herself to her feet, a look in her eye that is painfully familiar. She's done with her now, tired of her company or frustrated with it; regardless, the expression is the same. Dawn almost expects her to storm off looking for notes that had never been written. “It doesn’t hurt me.”
Guess she’s always been a liar, Dawn thinks.
 
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(not the current last line of the novel, but I remembered what I had meant to add in the scene before, and this is where that part ended)

Since I’m feeling put-upon right now, I add, “You’re lucky I said yes to this. I had a hard day yesterday with the occult. I deserve some time off.”
 
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She doesn’t know about the tapes, of course. She knows about Mom’s Hummels; that was impossible to hide after Rick decided to blab about it to everyone—but she believes, like everyone else, that I’m passionate about mosaics. But Clair’s kept the tapes a secret. I know because Rick still talks to me.
 

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"Someone just needs to watch that he doesn’t roll over.”
 
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One minute he was here with me, grousing about meatloaf and construction on Highway 2, and I was trying to cheer him up by talking about the weather and convince him that maybe we should drive somewhere in this balmy spring air—retrace some of his steps through apple country, or, hell, even drive out to Seattle and see Rick.
 
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"Let's try again." Temlin went back behind the lockers.
 
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My hands have slipped through hers because the pixnie dust wore off and I wasn’t concentrating.

(I lied. New ending line)
 
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His fiddle was made for pre-amplification days, he told me, a double set of inlaid lines on the edges to make a louder sound.

[This is inaccurate, by the way: a double row of purfling will not make your fiddle noticeably louder. However, the narrator and her informant have no way of knowing this . . .]
 
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