I have to stay calm, I thought to myself, whatever I hear, and I steeled myself for her words as if for a powerful blow. She shook her head, at a loss. “It’s just kind of… all around…” “I don’t follow…?” “As if it weren’t just inside me, but further away, kind of, I can’t explain. There aren’t words to express it…” “It’s probably dreams,” I said in an offhand way, and breathed a sigh of relief. “Now let’s turn off the light and not worry about anything till morning, and if we feel like it, in the morning we’ll look for some new worries, OK?” She reached out for the switch and darkness fell. I
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