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Through green into blue.

 

Her stealthy robber’s fist closes around the eye.

 

She has it! She pops the eye into her walnut. Snaps shut the shell like an eye-lid closing.

 

Clever: (hesitates) Mama, eye saw you hanged for murder. Is it wrong that eye look for you still?

 

green: … strangely charming! …

blue: … bottoms up …

RED: … top down …

No time to wait for an answer. The Clever maid leaps.

 

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Clever’s Road 38: GB0092