from the book
- donnylaja

- Oct 29
- 1 min read
[another knock on door] Come in.
[middle-aged woman in wraparound dress enters with young woman, nude]
DR. CHO Welcome, Elena, Dinka. Wow Dinka, you’re
getting even darker.
DINKA [giggles, unsteady on her feet]
ELENA She’s trying for Fitzgerald One, sunning two
hours every day.
ALISON There might have to be a Fitzgerald Type Zero
for her . . . Dinka is from Sudan, naturally dark
anyway. Ethel, this is Professor Winkle, and
one of her students, just in from the Multi-O
room. This is my old advisor, Dr. Ethel Cho.
DR. CHO Is this girl the one I saw tied up, all --
connected, shall we say?
ELENA Yes. Sorry, I thought she’d be back to earth by
now.
DINKA [giggling] No I don’t -- think so -- whee!! [nearly
falls over, held up by ELENA] I’m flying! [slips
on floor]
ALISON [laughing] I’ll see you two later. [they leave, ELENA dragging DINKA out of the room, sound of slipping bare feet fading away]

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