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ButтАФhe reminded himselfтАФevents here often did not exactly match what he had
learned in the world of his birth.



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Gordon R. Dickson - The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent


This last thought gnawed at his mind, colored by the emotion of seeing the
drifters. He was tired, in need of sleep, but sleep seemed impossible.

Thought succeeded thought. Possibility followed possibility. Mental scenarios in
which he dealt with one wild situation after anotherтАж The night-duty servant
quietly came in several times to replenish the wood in their fireplace. Each time
Jim pretended to be asleep.

At last, he did sleepтАФbut not wellтАФwaking to find predawn looking in the
windows and Angie gone. He got up, dressed, called in the room servant to make
up the bed, and lay down on it.

He fell asleep again. This time he dreamedтАФuntil the sound of the door opening
woke him a second time, as surely as if it had been an alarm.

"Jim!" said the Lady Angela Eckert, to the further sound of the door closing
sharply behind her. She came in, lit now by bright morning sunlight through the
Solar windows, moving swiftly to his bedside to stare down at him. "You're as
white as a sheet!"

Jim looked up at her from their big bed and answered without thinking. His
voice did not come out right. He had meant it to sound humorous. It did not.

"Someone just walked over my grave," he said.

Angie continued to stare at him, her face showing a mixture of expressions:
alarmed concern, near anger.

"What on earth do you mean saying a stupid thing like that?" she said finallyтАж

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but gently now, her face showing only concern as she sat down on the edge of
the bed. "Here you are, all dressed up and lying there on a made-up bed."

"Dressed up?"

He glanced down at his body. He had forgotten he had dressedтАФdressed upтАФin
his finest clothes, and had forgotten that the bed beneath him was made up. The