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- Mulch’s cheeks ballooned, and he opened his lips the merest fraction to speak.
- “Okay,” he said in a helium voice. “The tank is full.”
- The dwarf gathered Artemis and Holly in his burly Popeye arms and vented every bubble of air in his body. The resulting jet stream propelled the group down the length of the tunnel. The trip was short, jarring, and confusing. The breath was driven from Artemis’s lungs, and his fingers were stretched to cracking, but he would not let go of Holly.
- He could not let her die.
- The unfortunate gorilla was blown head-over-rump by the windstorm and yanked back up the tunnel as though tethered to an elastic cable. It whooped as it went, digging its fingers into the tunnel wall.
- Artemis, Holly, and Mulch popped from the tunnel mouth, bouncing and skittering along the ditch in a tangle of limbs and torsos. The stars above them were speed-streaked, and the moon was a smear of yellow light.
- An old famine wall halted their progress, crumbling under the impact of three bodies.
- “For more than a hundred and fifty years this wall stood,” coughed Artemis. “Then we come along.”
- -The Time Paradox, Chapter 7
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