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Out of breath, he sat and looked disconsolately across the slow, flat waves of the diminished tide. Leon’s family spent three years underground, living as roadside hawkers, letting the sun bake them to an ethnically indeterminate brown. “Do you require a name?” he asks. Put it on the CV.

Lucas starts for the stairs and the steel door bangs open. ”“That would have been a great place for you to learn about … restoration methods, whatever it was. They ended up on a park bench near the family of dancing bears, whom they watched avidly. They might just have been overspill from the artilect wars.