I'm not feeling too well, Doc.

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To that end he had sent his men among the common folk of the town, from whom came a litany of tales that led Hawk to a stunningly wrong conclusion. It seems I may not be good enough at listening, he said regretfully.

It must be clear by now that I was not — and am not now — that literal a person in relationship to time or place, but there was a reason, I believe, for this illogicity — the forging of the Dream, and it haunts and wracks the manuscript to this date.