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тАЬSpace!тАЭ He shouted up to Lincoln, his fist clenched, his voice ringing. тАЬWe've got to get free of this
planet!тАЭ

Laura was rightтАФthat was the only damned freedom that really counted in the long run. Why couldn't this
world see that?

****

Jeff was on the computer again, hands massaging the console like he was driving a car, kneading Rena's
back, making love to her face with his thumbs and his palms and his lips. He strained to see what was on
the screen, but he couldn't quite make it out. Words ... that didn't spell anything.... They never did, this
far away.
Something soft snuggled up behind him. He could feel taut nipples pressing against his neck, breasts
warm upon his back. He turned. Rena ... No, Laura...

She kissed him softly on the eyelid. тАЬTime to get up,тАЭ she said. тАЬIt's way too early for man or beast, but
you'll miss the bus if you don't get up now.тАЭ

тАЬOk,тАЭ Jeff said. He kissed Laura full on the lips, then leaned back, and ran his hand through her hair. тАЬI
guess I was dreaming.тАЭ

Laura put her head on his chest. тАЬComes with the territory.тАЭ

тАЬIt's still in the future when I dream,тАЭ Jeff said. тАЬI've been cut off from it almost totally since I've been
here, yet it's still in my dreams. Like a man who still feels his feet after his legs have been amputated.тАЭ

тАЬLots of people maimed in the WarтАФlots of people killed,тАЭ Laura said. тАЬI don't blame you for wanting to
demonstrate in Washington. I'd just feel better if I came alongтАФтАЭ

тАЬNo,тАЭ Jeff said. тАЬI want you here.тАЭ

тАЬSo who's going to make sure you don't do something foolish? If you get yourself arrested, and the police
start asking questions, looking into who you really are, where's that going to leave us?тАЭ

тАЬThat's exactly why I want you to stay back here,тАЭ Jeff said. тАЬI won't do anything foolish. I just want to
ride down with the demonstrators in one of the buses, get a feeling for who they areтАФI can't just hang
around here waiting another decade for the 80s to come along. But if something should happen to me, it's
key that you be out of it, safe back here in New York. You're the only one, other than me, who has any
inkling of what's going on.тАЭ

Laura laughed, without joy. тАЬWe're worse than the blind leading the blind.тАЭ

I'm just rapping with my friends, Ron...

тАЬTrue,тАЭ Jeff said, and hoisted himself out of bed. All too true. But maybe something still could be done to
change that. Up until the past months, he had been thinking of his role, and Laura's, solely in terms of
how they could change specific events known to have happenedтАФJFK's and the other assassinations,
the Challenger explosion. Jeff was tired of just reacting, of trying to dis-invent the tragedies that psychos,
idiots, and god knows what else had made.