The boy signaled to him to bequiet, then poked his head through for a brisk reconnaissance. Well, actually I could be standing on my head and it wouldn't make anydifference, but I need to be stronger. Deceit was apparently not common among the People, something that at another timePaul would have found fascinating. And then one set of thethings I did suddenly opened up a gateway.
Paul fought a terrible numb listlessness. But how could that be? For the fifth or sixth time that day, Paul's fingers went to his neck and the base do feel queasy,so he was lying flat on his back, looking up at the first prickling of stars in the sky. No wonder the People made their home in holes in the mountainside.
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