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Nestor studied her pretty face to detect... anything. It was about as easy to read as a brick. He couldn’t stand it. This was the very girl he had lusted for on this very same spot... even in the middle of a crisis that had rendered him speechless at the time. Was it possible that she really didn’tremember? All at once, without planning it, he heard himself saying, “Well, here we go again. The long march.”
She was already walking when she glanced back and said,
“Long march? It’s just down the hall.”
It was the tone that says, “I have no idea what you’re talking about and it’s not worth my time to find out.” As before, she led him to just outside the Chief’s office and stopped. “I’ll let him know you’re here.” Then she disappeared inside.
In no time she came out of the office. “You can go in.”
Nestor tried one last time to get a sign... from her lips, her eyes, her eyebrows, a tilt of the head — just a sign, anysign, goddamn it! Her loins weren’t even a part of the anatomy at this moment. But all he got was the brick.

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