Tom works on a trap-line to make sure the nithrid doesn\u2019t destroy his building. He mutters to himself. He looks up.<\/p>\n
Emily is smiling at him.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s reminding her of her godfather Eldri, and of happy summers, and of how glad she was, just recently, to hear he\u2019d gotten out of the hospital and that the cancers that had bloomed in him after the nuking of Bibury appeared to finally be gone.<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t know that, though.<\/p>\n
To Tom, it\u2019s just all summery sweetness. He looks at her and he sees what he imagines must be a fellow Dreamer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a hat,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
He takes it off. He holds it out to her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t,\u201d she protests.<\/p>\n
He tries again. \u201cI mean,\u201d he says. \u201cIt will refine you. It will awaken you. It will make all that flows through you, and is in disorder, into a single stream, and pure.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looks at it.<\/p>\n
She shrugs. She tries on the hat.<\/p>\n
She licks her lips. She doesn\u2019t say anything. Her eyes film for a moment, then come up streaked with yellow gold.<\/p>\n
\u201cI . . . really need to stop giving my hat to random people,\u201d confesses Tom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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