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During those long, deadly days, Paul stayed in his room, unwilling even to goout into the silence, calling up maps of faraway places on his screen instead, making plans forescape. Another part of her wondered at how quickly Celestino had become nothing more than a number inher credit account. _ Something was interfering with his concentration, a vague but insistent pain, a sense ofpressure that Paul could not ignore. It was only when the thing cried out again that Orlando realized that theintruder he had struck was talking about itself.

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