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| | Bantam Dell Publishing Group | Taken by Thomas H. Cook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Russell leaned back and drew in a quick desperate breath, his eyes now fixed on the empty sky beyond the shattered cockpit window, where, in the distance, the blue lights hung again, calm, soothing, a promise of peace. |
 | | Russell felt nothing but the warm, soothing light until, second by second, the light faded, and he felt the earth beneath him, heard the sound of wind rippling through a field of wheat. |
 | | Russell glanced down and saw that he was naked too, and that the soft flesh of his abdomen was utterly unharmed. |
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