He turned and looked at Marie and then said something to his wife. Marie got another gaze, and he came over to Marie."I hope you don't mind me asking,... but are you waiting for someone?" No, and no," Marie answered.He looked at Marie with a question in his eyes.Marie smiled, "Sorry. I meant, no, I don't mind you asking. And no, I'm not waiting for anyone."He gave a relieved smile, "Would you like to join my wife and me? By the way, my name's Tom."Marie said she'd love to, and Tom carried her. I breatheda little sigh of relief, because if the UN was on site with medicalhelp, then this was less likely to devolve into a cover-up, involvingmass graves.Some of Sri Lanka's victims had survived with deformities and a few veryfortunate ones with what could only be called superpowers. I'm sureyou've seen them on the Tonight Show. That guy who can walk up walls, orthat old woman with the elephant's trunk and ears.My silly inner voice was imagining, "And here she is folks, the amazingCrystal.. ..”“So, you think that twenty-one to twenty-three period will be particularly rough?” Lev smiled gently.Arwen leaned more fully against Lev. “Maybe we revisit the question in a year? Come back to Madison Square Park on July 11, 2016 and see if we want to do it at twenty-one or wait?”“You drive a hard bargain, future Mrs. Jessop,” said Lev. “Should we shake on it?”Arwen drew his head down. “Don’t you dare.”It was such a good kiss that Arwen barely even noticed Lev drawing her slowly into his. “Yeah. I have cameras in all the major work areas. They’re at service counter, the fridge, the office and even a few outside.”All at once I could feel my world collapsing. I was getting tunnel vision and panic started to roll over me.“Are you okay?” Mr. Keller asked.Tears started to well up in my eyes and I dropped my head down to my chest.“I . . . ” I started to say.“What?” Mr. Keller asked.I took a deep breath and looked up at Mr. Keller and paused. “I have your money but I didn’t steal.
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