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North America,” said Pennyroyal, “is a Dead Continent. Everyone knows that. Discovered in the year 1924 by Christopher Columbo, the great explorer and detective, it became the homeland of an empire that once ruled the world, but which was utterly destroyed in the Sixty Minute War.
She did not feel particularly frightened. It was nice, dozing there in Tom’s sleepy embrace, feeling the warmth seep out of her. And everybody knew that lovers who died in each other’s arms went down together to the Sunless Country, favorites of the Goddess of Death. The only problem was, she needed to pee.
“Really, Miss Shaw, ‘mad’ is such an unhelpful term. I would prefer to say that the former Miss Fang is ‘differently sane.’”
Uncle kicked him a few times for good measure. Beneath their cheerful bunny faces his slippers had steel toecaps.
he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and outright lies he’d fed them.
