div class="userstuff module" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 1088.64px; float: none; word-wrap: break-word; color: #2a2a2a;"
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Well, go after her!" Amanita exclaimed after a grating moment./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"He made as though to move towards the door and then caught himself, turned in a sharp circle like an indecisive dog, and then lunged through the door again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The remainder of the room looked at each other in wonder, Will dropped a kiss onto Riley's shoulder./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Hernando seemed to share an opinion with Amanita. "If he wants her," he announced in a heavy voice, getting up to be a host again. "He's going to have to make an effort."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"-/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Kala sat, picturesque, in a window, the light fanning over her shoulders and tossing in her curls. Wolfgang closed the door behind him as he entered: an old habit of an old life where privacy had been a possibility. Seeing her did nothing to relieve his mind, and she let him stand by the door for several minutes before she turned abruptly. "Come and sit down," she commanded, in a dry and even voice./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Kala turned her face away and stared over the beauties of Mexico City. "I dream about you. Almost every night. Did you know that?"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Science cannot yet tell us if we dream of things that we repress or of things that we obsess over. It seems like a very strong distinction. Maybe it is not."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Wolfgang." The name was a caress, and he looked up instinctively. She did not look like a girl who had been recently crying. She was maternal and beautiful and in control, he knew, of both of them. "You said I must stay away from you because you are monstrous. But I do not think that you understand. We are the same. As Will says, we have the same mind in many bodies. If you consider yourself to be a monster, what can you consider me?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The accusation opened his lips instantly. "You are not a monster," he protested instantly./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""But we are the same!" she explained./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"He shook his head, seeming to struggle to clear his voice before he would let himself speak. "We were the same. Perhaps we were born at the same moment, perhaps we had the same mind then. But there is no morality in that, in the way we were born. You have done good things with that. But I… it is our choices that dictate our morality and I… I have chosen murder and evil."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I did not say…"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You did not ask," she corrected, and the flush was now one of anger, but her voice was still calm. "You argue that your choices are bad, that they are dangerous, yet you try to make mine for me? Let me make a choice for both of us, if I am so good at choosing. You do not choose my happiness. That is your sin, that you tried."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Your happiness," he struggled, wrestling with the new ideas she was giving him. "Is what I am fighting for…"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""My happiness!" she exclaimed, springing up from the couch and rounding on him. "What an interesting concept! What am I supposed to do, Wolfgang? Go out and find another man to fall in love with? You are part of my mind, you are my dreams, my thoughts. I spill into your life daily, I taste your coffee, I feel the coarseness of your sheets, I smell your scent! I cannot remove you from my life, I can never be free of you, I cannot walk away! It may not be your preference, but there is no way to spare my feelings. We are bound together now!"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Her tears were back now, burning red at the corners of her vision, but they vanished as she saw him look up with a calm smile. She choked and stepped back, but he stood slowly and moved towards her. "You think my sheets are coarse?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""They are…" she stammered. "They are not as soft as they could be."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Berlin is cold," he tossed the idea aside casually. "But how do you know what my sheets feel like?"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"She looked up with scandal in her eyes. "It was not!"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I appeared by your window!" she had backed into a wall now, and settled there defiantly. "It was very cold, so, as you were asleep, I joined you in bed. I could not figure out how to go back to my room." She was not a steady liar and her eyes cut sideways./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The amount of cockiness he was exuding in his very posture suddenly infuriated her and she pushed off from the wall. "Stop teasing me! Do you think this is a joke? I like…"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Well, go after her!" Amanita exclaimed after a grating moment./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"He made as though to move towards the door and then caught himself, turned in a sharp circle like an indecisive dog, and then lunged through the door again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The remainder of the room looked at each other in wonder, Will dropped a kiss onto Riley's shoulder./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Hernando seemed to share an opinion with Amanita. "If he wants her," he announced in a heavy voice, getting up to be a host again. "He's going to have to make an effort."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"-/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Kala turned her face away and stared over the beauties of Mexico City. "I dream about you. Almost every night. Did you know that?"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Wolfgang." The name was a caress, and he looked up instinctively. She did not look like a girl who had been recently crying. She was maternal and beautiful and in control, he knew, of both of them. "You said I must stay away from you because you are monstrous. But I do not think that you understand. We are the same. As Will says, we have the same mind in many bodies. If you consider yourself to be a monster, what can you consider me?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The accusation opened his lips instantly. "You are not a monster," he protested instantly./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""But we are the same!" she explained./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"He shook his head, seeming to struggle to clear his voice before he would let himself speak. "We were the same. Perhaps we were born at the same moment, perhaps we had the same mind then. But there is no morality in that, in the way we were born. You have done good things with that. But I… it is our choices that dictate our morality and I… I have chosen murder and evil."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""As have I," she replied instantly, and he looked up again in surprise. "Because I have chosen you." She spoke firmly, but a girlish flush colored her cheeks and her eyelids fluttered down. "You told me once that you knew that I wanted you. When exactly do you theorize that that fact changed?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I did not say…"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You did not ask," she corrected, and the flush was now one of anger, but her voice was still calm. "You argue that your choices are bad, that they are dangerous, yet you try to make mine for me? Let me make a choice for both of us, if I am so good at choosing. You do not choose my happiness. That is your sin, that you tried."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Your happiness," he struggled, wrestling with the new ideas she was giving him. "Is what I am fighting for…"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""My happiness!" she exclaimed, springing up from the couch and rounding on him. "What an interesting concept! What am I supposed to do, Wolfgang? Go out and find another man to fall in love with? You are part of my mind, you are my dreams, my thoughts. I spill into your life daily, I taste your coffee, I feel the coarseness of your sheets, I smell your scent! I cannot remove you from my life, I can never be free of you, I cannot walk away! It may not be your preference, but there is no way to spare my feelings. We are bound together now!"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Her tears were back now, burning red at the corners of her vision, but they vanished as she saw him look up with a calm smile. She choked and stepped back, but he stood slowly and moved towards her. "You think my sheets are coarse?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""They are…" she stammered. "They are not as soft as they could be."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Berlin is cold," he tossed the idea aside casually. "But how do you know what my sheets feel like?"/p
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