Thanks, Dulcie. He just wanted to be held and told everything would be all right. _ He considered it only a moment, his heart rabbiting in his chest--the overworked heart that hecould feel, but which was not actually in this marionette body. She had hardly thought about them in two days--was it going to start all overagain now? She hadn't eaten anything since entering the network, and she wasn't obsessing about_that_.
They came in fromoutside, just as you did. trust him or anything, since he might noteven be real--she found herself coming to the conclusion she had hoped to reach. Something rustled beside her, an almost inaudible scrape among the leaves near her head. A momentlater, he heard Fredericks' footsteps crunching through the sand behind him, and knew that hisfriend had made a choice.
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