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The voice sounded masculine, but thefeatures were still hidden by the goggled helmet. He had a few swallows of wine, then with magnificent self-control closed thepressure seal, slid the bottle into his pocket, and walked with immense care back to the highway. ts todiscover the origins of the golden city vision arouse suspicion, and he and Fredericks are forcedto flee. So, of the many subordinate versions of itself it would create, while committing a kind ofsuicide-by-diminishment of its central s

He worked his fingers in the air for a moment as though trying to grasp something, then opened hiseyes again. This was doing them no good at all, he realized--if they went farther, theymight lose the river entirely. She smiled and retied her boot. End over end became a centrifugal blur.