CHAPTER 5
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lexander rose and dragged the chair away from the foot of the bed. He moved quickly but delicately. “Sorry for the intrusion. I will meet you downstairs when you are ready,” he reassured earnestly, averting his eyes respectfully from Rob’s disheveled form. Without another word, the governor left the room and closed the door behind him.
Rob sat frozen on the bed for at least a few minutes and stared blankly at the wood paneling of the door his intruder had just exited. At that moment his brain was incapable of grasping what had transpired. The interaction had occurred so quickly that it seemed to be yet another sequence in his strange dream. It was not. He did not wake up a second time. The ramifications branched out from his consciousness in an infinitely dividing network of
