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sounded distant as if she wer

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ydney, Au

t as well have been

you?" she a

lieved to hear she was OK. Still holding the receiver, I grabbed

ng you coul

abduction or space-time distortion,

r someone sent me here?"

t." I reached for the bottle, had a

till have alcoh

were abducted by aliens, and when they were about to start experimenting on you, their spaceship got abducted by

ropped me off on a d

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least th

one of the goats left as w

t it with an Au

you? That goat was the on

appened to the

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come to A

have

th my passport, use it to buy the next ticket to Perth - sorry, I meant Sydney. I'm goin

I'll

See you soon

too.

my head. Australia. Of all the places, why did she have to go to Australia? I had to go the

gh the room. I covered the gun and the bottle with the towel that I had used to cover the phone minutes before and op

?

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ghed and hang up. I called the shop at

ing her answer out of a drawer. She grinned as I slid the five doll

ey. I could try to find a bank and ask them if they could exchange the Pakistani money for m

n the opposite side of the sky, of course, and the wind felt odd as well. There was not a cloud in the sky which was strange, as there's always at leas

no money. What to do. Twenty-four hours and only Pakistani money. Twenty-three hours, fif

ng my senses allowed me to. People were strolling as if it were a Sunday. I guessed in Australia every day w

with me. My mind. I was still good at talking, finding stuff and solving problems. I bet I could talk my way into a free meal at least. It w