lan F,’ he said. ‘We follow Plan F, right now.’ I looked at him. ‘Is that the one where we run away?’ ‘Not at all. It’s the one where we beat a dignified emergency retreat.’ ‘You’re thinking of Plan G, Luce,’ George grunted. ‘They’re similar.’
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‘The skull spent half the time cheering because we were about to die,’ I said.
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We were in cheerful spirits. We’d had a lot of sleep, and we’d had plenty of attention.
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‘So, are we all arrested?’
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Beneath the smudged dust where my fingers had passed I saw a display of dried white lilies. For a moment I wondered how long they’d sat there in the dark, these memorial flowers, in perpetual bloom.
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I thought about how easily everything I cared about could be destroyed.
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Then we jumped out together, hand in hand.
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I lay back, coughing, gasping. Lockwood was at my side; he grasped my hand.
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I slowed, slowed . . . and hung suspended in the blackness, without thought, without emotion, without much attachment to life or living things.
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Burglary’s more fun than socializing, I always say.