Q: as for the letter , if she sent pearl for the ink , the girl would only report the tidbit to hawke . gemma would have to retrieve it herself . **** the ink was in one of the desk drawers . she remembered seeing her father putting the bottle in there after refilling his own inkwell long ago . one of the drawers on the left , she was almost certain . rummaging through the drawers felt somewhat wrong , but gemma had to have the _ ... Fill the blank.
A: blank is ink

Q: '' an x means there are no fish at that point willing to take my bait , '' he said . '' sometimes i could see them diving for cover or signing a pledge to starve to death before taking a chance that something might be one of my lures . '' there were lots of these marks on the map . '' the check marks show where something actually made a strike at one of my _ ... Fill the blank.
A: blank is lures

Q: even the set of universes that split off only ten to twenty years ago should effectively be infinite , if there are an infinity of universes generated every second . somehow the number of universes being viewed is limited by the cube . seeing the identical message twice implies that the ensemble of universes viewed is significantly limited , perhaps to only a few hundred , perhaps with the set of universes in play redefined every few decades . '' '' that still sounds like a lot of _ ... Fill the blank.
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blank is universes