Todo sucede dentro de un hiratakuwagata.Tengo en la boca su coriáceo sabor.Después, cede un tanto la presión en el cuero cabelludo, poso el pie lib...re en el suelo, pero sólo un momento: el torso y las caderas se despegan otra vez de la tarima. La pierna que no está atada al cuerpo se eleva. Me hallo suspendida a más de un metro del suelo. Formo un arco. Todas las cuerdas se tensan; por un instante, estoy convencida de que mi humanidad va a estallar, a partirse en mil trozos palpitantes. Trozos. "Well you could do that," I said. Kyon quickly added, "Yeah that's a lot better than just swallowing it." "OK then that's what I'll do." She said satisfied. "I would try it a different way though if I were you Laura," I said as she sat at the coffee table getting ready to crush the red, blue and yellow pill. She looked at me inquisitively. "Yeah there's a lot better way to take it." Kyon added. "And what might that be," Laura said. "Well... you put it up your ass." Her jaw dropped as. "See, it's pointing to the place the goat was killed, which is most likely the magician's basement." That's so cool!" Her expression turned serious. "But I wish it wasn't pointing you toward danger." Yeah, but I don't have any choice. I'll show you on the map roughly where I'm heading." I dug out my sketch of the local area. "See where the two lines cross? The magician should live somewhere around there." It wasn't a half-mile away, just a little west and then south of Cord. I could cross Cord. The Meeting Place for both of us, which all of a sudden started seeming like a place for the damned rather than a Place of Tingly Excitement and Anticipation as it shoulda been, was a short walk from the hotel. We decided to walk there together, with me playing the chivalrous Guy From the Plane escorting our Damsel in Distress. Maddy pointed out the acclaimed Sydney Opera House, looking, well pretty much like the acclaimed Sydney Opera House, and saw the entire area surrounding it teeming with.