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Hunting across the zero between waking and sleep, his halfway limp cock still inside her, their strengthless legs bent the same angle... The bedroom deepens into water and coolness. Somewhere the sun is going down. Just enough light to see the darker freckles on her back.

One day, just as he's entering a narrow street all ancient brick walls and lined with costermongers, he hears his name called - and hubba hubba what's this then, here she comes all right, blonde hair flying in telltales, white wedgies clattering on cobblestones, an adorable tomato in a nurse uniform, and her name's, uh, well, oh - Darlene. Golly, it's Darlene.

It adds an overtone to the game, which changes the timbre slightly. It is she who, at some indefinite future moment, must push the Witch into the Oven intended for Gottfried. So the Captain must allow for the real chance she's a British spy, or member of the Dutch underground.

A skulk of foxes, a cowardice of curs are tonight's traffic whispering in the yards and lanes. A motorcycle out on the trunk road, snarling cocky as a fighter plane, bypasses the village, heading up to London. The great balloons drift in the sky, pearl-grown, and the air is so still that this morning's brief snow still clings to the steel cables, white goest twisting peppermint-stick down thousands of feet of night.