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14 cular and dimmer. These were the holes where pipes entered the wall.

AHHHH!

Something moving! Close by. Oh, gross! A cockroach!

Get a grip, Jake! I told myself. You're a cock roach, too! But still,
you just don't want to be face-to-face with a roach as big as you are. I
mean, he was right at eye level. The other roach's antennae felt me,
sweeping over me, tangling briefly with my antennae.

We said "hi." At least, we said the roach ver sion of "hi." Which wasn't
really "hello." It was more like, "Oh, you're a roach, too."

Now, in the darkness inside the wall, I felt calmer. The electric fear
was gone. The suddenness of the light had been the problem. That and the
vibration.

I could still feel the vibrations, but they were different now. Further
away.

Okay, I'd had enough of being a roach. It was time to get to some safe
place, demorph and find out who had been in my room.

Why was someone in my room? A few minutes earlier, and they would have
caught me in mid- morph. Stupid of me. Stupid, stupid.

Where could I go to demorph? The garage? Yes, the garage. There weren't
any mirrors, and I sure didn't want to watch myself morph again.

15 Through the kitchen, out under the back door; that was the way.

I went to the bright crack ahead of me, the kitchen. I scampered up on
the ledge of linoleum. I stuck my head and antennae out beneath the
baseboard. The vibrations were all far away. In some other room.

I emerged from the crack. Over my head was an incredibly high canyon. It
went up and up, far higher than I could see. Two parallel walls, just a
few body lengths apart. Of course. The refrigerator. I was behind the
refrigerator. One side of the "canyon" was the kitchen wall, the other
side was the back of the refrigerator.

Someone really should sweep back here. There were dust bunnies the size
of couches.

But no problem. I was getting the hang of it now. Follow the baseboard.
To the next wall. Turn right, and then there would be the door.

No problem. I was in charge.