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'First, you can't have a town meeting in the Jefferson Tract because there's no town — even Kineo's just an unincorporated township with a name. He had been in a cluttery old shed with someone he couldn't quite see. But—' 'That's good enough for me,' he says. He stood where he was for a moment, calling up his memory of the shed's interior.

'He just—' 'I don't mind,' she says. 'Actually it would,' Pete agrees. Listening to himself speak as Mr Gray — under deep hypnosis to become Mr Gray — had been like listening to a malevolent ghost. s, so many gears eager to grab for your guts? 'Jonesy?' 'Huh?' 'You okay?' 'Yeah, why?' 'You shivered.