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<p>They walked back into the shade of a tree that did not belong, epiphytes strange and new winding around its trunk. Once he had strung wires between these arcane points, describing a sigil Jude could never hope to understand, they could seek relief from the Arizona sun. Ferns fingered the air and fronds like hands reached out to touch them.</p>
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<p>A flash. A sudden light from all five posts set the clearing in stark relief.</p>
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<p>Aaron smiled dreamily. “Thank God that worked.”</p>
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<p>And then they unwound the entire procedure from before. Undoing the cabling, unearthing the rods, undowsing, in some strange way, the work of the theolodite.</p>
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<p>And then they unwound the entire procedure from before. Undoing the cabling, unearthing the rods, undowsing, in some strange way, the work of the theodolite.</p>
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<p>On the way back to the camp, Aaron continued to chatter. He was measuring the way light and shadow moved so untrod an area. “No reason to think something as basic as light would differ here,” he had assured her. Or at least assured her form, as her mind was elsewhere. “But you have to admit, everything’s a little strange.”</p>
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<p>At the camp: quiet. The four sat, each in front of their tent, thinking or not, reading or not. At one point, the linguist asked after the geologist, the fifth member of their expedition, and Elanna, archaeologist and <em>de facto</em> leader, repeated, “I don’t know. He’s just gone.”</p>
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<p>And then: quiet.</p>
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<p>And when Elanna awoke, the puma was the first to notice the new tree, there by the numinous outcropping and its attendant forest, where ferns fingered the air and fronds like hands reached out to touch them.</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-06-30</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-06-29</p>
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