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Chapter 16.......................................
Dead Dog



Prologue

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The Tar Baby's alarm caught them making love,
or the whole emergency might never have
happened.
It might seem odd that they let something as
frivolous as sex distract them even momentarily
from their responsibilities. They were as
dedicated, motivated and committed to their
work as any guardians in history, as responsible
as it was possible to be. And they had, after all,
been married to each other for over nine
centuries at that point.
But then, theirs wasтАФeven for their kindтАФone
of the Great Marriages. They had mutually
agreed on their five hundredth anniversary that
in their opinion, things were just getting really
good, and as their millennial approached, both
still felt the same. And perhaps even we mortals
can dimly understand that any hobby which
endures over such a span of time must have
within it certain elements of obsession. They had
long since taken into their lovemaking, as into
their marriage itself, the spirit of the Biblical
injunction, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,

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do it with all thy might," and they were good at
finding things to do.
The precise timing of the alarm, moreover, was
more than diabolical: it was Murphian. For
several hours they had been constructing a
complex and beautiful choreography of ecstasy
together, a four-dimensional structure of
pleasure and joy extending through space and