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YOUR DENSITY
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ine sand, hard\-packed.  The RAGNAROK was up to her neck.
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Winter on Mars.
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Slake reached out but his arm passed through her hull.  Confounded, he nearly fell to the ground.
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"I'm..." she whispered, exasperated beyond consoling, "I'm your density."
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Slake stared.
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Out, into the snow.  Kicking pebbles over the frosted runway.  Deserted desert.
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Thin end of the pink wedge, sinking in the sand.
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Slake lit his purple cigarette and wandered through a hole in the fence.  Continued beyond the restricted area.
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The spiral stones.
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She was dying.
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