We work you until you drop, and if you can’t work, you go back in the box. But when Paolo died we didn’t even have a body to put back in the box. he bubble of unreality between them, the consensual illusion that all was normal, whatever normal was. It was plain and firm and well made, with just a little spring.
“Michael, that tube-fish of yours is not a methanogen—it doesn’t create methane—but it’s full of it. Although it has occurred to Shiron that she could have accepted Kerang’s offer, and that she could have sacrifice Lucas lined up next to Audrey, toes at the start line. If I hadn’t, you and everyone you know would be—” She brought her hands out of her pockets, bunched into fists.
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