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"Kids, we can go now," announced Runni somewhat later.
"Do you think that latch will hold?" asked Snoddi.
She just looked at him.
They all stepped into the painting...
"This can't be Rio," begged Rhodes, but subsided at the music.
The beach began to writhe. "You're outside Stockholm, stranded. We...wanted to talk to you & you left us alone!"
"You weren't alone," asserted Desiree, "You had each other."
"Right," encouraged the groundnet, "we'll go the long way around."
Darkness approached, & Desiree's former hairnet appeared to be sparkling quizzically. Desiree could sense air-to-ground communications from which she was excluded, & prepared to react.
"So, South America?" interrupted Runni.
"Don't hurt me any more than you need to," said Snoddi.
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Meanwhile, the stallions were unlost in space, regarding their hitch-hiker.
"What do you think we should call him?" asked S2.
"He's your issue," said Stallion, "if you can't decide you should ask him.
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