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'Chaos does not have rules.'
'Perhaps this is not chaos. Alec, if you won't wear this to bed, do you mind if I do?'
'Oh, I'll wear it. It won't stop Satan if he really wants to take it away from us. Nor does it really worry me. Once he dumped us mother naked into the Pacific and we pulled out of it - remember? What does worry me is - Marga, have you noticed that every time we have gone through a change we've been holding each other? At least holding hands?'
'I've noticed.'
'Change happens in the blink of an eye. What happens if we're not together, holding each other? At least touching? Tell me.'
She kept quiet so long that I knew she did not intend to answer.
I 'Uh huh,' I said. 'Me, too. But we can't be Siamese twins, touching all the time. We have to work. My darling, my life, Satan or Loki or whatever bad spirit is doing this to us, can separate us forever simply by picking any instant when we are not touching.'
'Alec.'
'Yes, my love?'
'Loki has been able to do this to us at any moment for a long time. It has not happened.'
'So it may happen the next second.'.
'Yes. But it may not happen at all.'
We moved on, and suffered more changes. Margrethe's precaution's did seem to work - although in one change they seemed to work almost too well; I barely missed a jail sentence for unlawful possession of silver coins. But a quick change (the quickest we had seen) got rid of the charge, the evidence, and the complaining witness
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