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Mike Stearns had been standing nearby, listening. There was boundto be someone among the Germans in town who could do it. He was a lonely man, and, what was worse, a man who was uncomfortable in his loneliness. Now she welcomed it, opening her mind full to the Goddess, inwardly imploring the Goddess to come into hersel

htmlHe gave her an odd look. He shouldered the door to his room open. She'd seen the eruptingexit wound on the man's belly. Then, again, maybe it won't.