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Soon after dinner with Adam's theories and ideas, nearly anyone could see Jamie was looking grey again. It had been a long day, (and even longer with Joris nearly killing Jamie), so Vanessa started seeing about where to put the three of them for the night. Helen was directed to Vanessa's room, and after a muttered comment about Adam's room being
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Exhausted as he is, Jamie does sleep, though, and sleeps deep - though he wakes up far too early the next morning, and can hardly see Joris over the tremendous pile of eiderdown between them.
(If Jamie ever wanted to live posh, he takes it back! They haven't the faintest idea how to live comfortably. Nobody needs to sleep under what amounts to a full barnyard's worth of hens!)
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It only takes a bit of shoving to get the elderdown moved out of the way so they can see each other.
"How are you?"
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Jamie pauses to take stock, and realizes that his arm hardly hurts at all. He must be healing apace. "All right," he decides, and sits up straighter.
"Joris, what do you think of Vanessa's idea for getting rid of Them? Do you think it could be that simple?"
Jamie doesn't. Jamie really doesn't. But he hasn't exactly been thinking at his top-notch level recently, what with the demon knife wound and all. And Joris, he knows, is far more optimistic than he is, and probably not nearly as scared of Them. Jamie's had time to learn better.
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Even more so with the incident in the alleyway yesterday.
He bites his lip, thinking, doing his best to look at it objectively as if They were just a nest of ordinary demons and not beings playing games with whole worlds...
It is a little hard to do, but then again, They are much more than 'just' demons.
"No." Finally, shaking his head with a sigh. "It can't be right. Helen says your world is next one on. I think we should go there."
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