'' manual release , '' she said and a scanner beam passed over her eye . the wrist cuffs deactivated , and echo tossed them aside . '' the utilities are automated once i scan open the door . '' dragging the sheet with her , echo followed aila across the room . aila picked up the bundle as they passed the table and handed it to echo
they had branched off the main road and were making their way along a little lane that led around back to the rutherford gates , when they chanced to see caroline ward , standing at the door of a tiny , run-down looking thatched cottage that stood set back a little distance from the road in a square of bedraggled garden . she looked , even from a distance , to be very angry indeed . she appeared to have been knocking at the door , and now raised her hand to deliver another smart buffet to the woodwork . '' hello , aunt caroline , '' julia called out . caroline turned at the sound of their voices and came down the short walkway to join them in the
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i laughed and kept painting snowflakes as the butterflies fluttered in my stomach . i did know the routine , but i 'd need to work hard to get ready , and i 'd be the out-of-breath dancer hiding in the back row , but the idea of being on stage thrilled me . that afternoon , they fitted me with my

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Q: asked lucy . '' in bed , '' said edmund , '' and i do n't think we can do anything for him . it only makes him worse if you try to be nice to him . '' '' meanwhile , '' said caspian , '' we want to talk . '' '' by jove , we do , '' said _ ... Fill the blank.
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TEXT: Continue writing the following text: a tweed couch with saggy cushions , a peeling vinyl recliner , and a console stereo with a nineteen inch tv on top seemed to fill the room excessively . decorator items were minimal -- a framed print showing a dirt road winding away into the woods hung over the couch . a lump of wadded laundry , presumably clean , covered about a third of the
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