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    Alone, they are like the right and left hands, which need no conversation to know which holds the knife and which the rope, to know who chops and who steadies. But you can deny your body’s instinctive response to nearly anything, she has learned, once you get into the habit of it.

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    An injury, a small room and a narrow bed, a drop into the Fade; the thing that happens when the instinct for protection turns to fear.

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