If you were closer, I'd slap you," she said. "Let me help," I replied, and stepped closer. She promptly slapped me, which surprised me only a little. We glared at each other in the near dark, and then she looked away. "I'm sorry I slapped you," she said. "That's all right. I quite enjoyed it.
Kenneth OppelYou see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori
Kenneth OppelHonestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other." I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said.
Kenneth OppelYou can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.
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