He reached out a stealthy hand and caressed the curve at the bottom of the drawstring bag. “A devil’s hoof’s what it means, some say, but what do we care, eh, Sue? Nasty, horrid creature that she is, she’s still made it possible for two women to get on in the world a little longer. Not one bit. By some sort of In-World telepathy, mayhap.
Bert looked at Alain and saw a queer, musing expression on the boy’s face. And still they played dumb. When he was finished, the tank was pretty well topped up. As with all his best and truest intuitions, it came from nowhere and everywhere—absent at one second, all there and fully dressed at the next.
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