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... nothing in particular. The specific, careful looking of someone who has chosen a fixed point in the middle distance and is using it as a life raft.

He moved her to the log.

The fallen palm, horizontal above the sand, the specific piece of landscape he had identified on their first walk through the island that morning as usable for — at the time he had said ’for shelter components.’

He had not meant that.

Or had meant that as one possible use among several.

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