Then I heard the sound of somebody breathing.
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t first I thought it was only myself, and that I was lying in thedark in my hotel room after being poisoned. I held my breath, butthe breathing kept on. A green eye glowed on the bed beside me. It was divided intoquarters like a compass. I reached out slowly and closed my handon it. I lifted it up. With it came an arm, heavy as a dead man’s, butwarm with sleep.
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