[Q]: '' hey , em . how 're you holding up ? '' '' i hate this . i hate all of it . '' emily stifled a sob as soon as she felt mick 's arms wrap around her . '' you did n't have to come in today . '' '' mick , i just needed one of your...

[A]: hugs

[Q]: a final bright flash blazed ahead of her and , as if really before her eyes , a younger , more beautiful vision of herself shimmered . while dia gasped slightly at the bizarre phenomenon , the past version of herself spoke in a voice comparable to no human-made sound . it was perfect and unbroken as though carried through the air on softest silk . '' you left this for yourself ,...

[A]: dia

[Q]: one never came in or went out by the same route , and one rode in a different sort of sealed and windowless vehicle each time one arrived or departed . nor did one journey to or from depot ever take anything like the same amount of time as the one before it or the one after . as sophon-06 had observed , the new law robots invested a great deal of effort in order to stay hidden . gubber therefore paid no attention to the journey back and forth to...

[A]: depot

[Q]: i was suffering from having fallen to the ground and a hit to the head , after all . ' well , how am i going to get up to you , then ? ' ' you could just throw me the dagger . ' i looked up skeptically . the ropes seemed wound pretty tightly around her . they , however , were connected to the pillars . ' hang on , ' i said , walking up to one of the...

[A]:
pillars