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Above it, the green signs they had first spotted from across the way stood clear. They might mean nothing, but Jonas thought someone might have climbed over the gate rather than risk opening it and having it fall off its hinges. She was perfectly cooperative (some sleep eager, Cort would have said), but beyond a certain point she would not go. The image of Jake returned, one memory stepping on another.

”“Aye, lady. /Images/image00530. ”12In the moon’s pale half-light, Susan led him out of the orange grove and toward the thump and squeak of the oilpatch. why don’t you stay with her, Clay? Coral, I mean—come tomorrow, I don’t think we’ll have to worry about this ’un anymore, but Coral .