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My snake.
I sat up.
“Is everything okay?” I said.
Her eyes were wide. Realizing she was naked, she snatched the blankets up and wrapped them around herself.
Too late.
I’d already seen the gorgeous body she had under there. But I pretended I hadn’t.
She stared at me, looking for any sign of misconduct.
“You sleep naked?” she said.
“Guilty as charged,” I said.
“But… I didn’t know that!” she said.
She peered at her guilty hand and glared at it.
“I need to go wash my hand,” she said. “Be right back.”
She tugged on her underwear and nightgown, then hustled across to the bathroom, her hand outstretched like it belonged to someone else.
She never made it to the bathroom. She reached halfway before she stopped.
“No…” she said. “That’s impossible.”
She was staring at the spot where, until last night, a hole three-feet deep had existed. Now, it was gone. There wasn’t a single blemish or mark. I turned to look at the tunnels I’d dug at her command and found they’d disappeared too.
Maddy fell to her knees at the wall and ran her hand over it.
“It has to be here somewhere,” she said. “It has to be…”
I slipped on my shorts and tee and crossed to her.
“Hey, hey,” I said.
She was too upset and didn’t hear me. She kept scrambling at that section of wall, searching frantically for what she knew had to be there.
But it wasn’t.
I grabbed her hands. She was going to hurt herself at this rate.
“Hey,” I said. “Calm down. It’s okay.”
“No!” she said, struggling against me. “It’s not okay! It’s many things but it’s not okay! This was supposed to be our ticket out of here! This was supposed to be our way out!”
I folded her arms against her chest and wrapped my own around her in a protective cocoon.
“It’s gone,” I said. “It’s okay. We’ll find another way out of here.”
“We’re never getting out of here!” she cried. “We’re never getting out!”
She wept, the tears rolling down her face.
I hope you’re happy, Changelings, I bellowed in my mind. I hope you’re damn happy.
