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Night VisitCYBELE’S SILVER DISK HAD SET, leaving a starless night unfolding over the town. The temperatures had fallen at their cooler seasonal levels, as to compensate the day’s excesses. Far to the East, the Ubu River jumped from the cliff with a roaring dampened by distance.
Lupianne shivered at the foot of the hospital’s back wall. Gorged with cold water, the fabric cells of her dark chameleon suit hid her body heat.
But this was the price to pay to avoid displaying a fiery yellow silhouette to the vigilant infrared eyes. Such devices were hidden in the entrance doors and the windows.
Lupianne had to get to the roof. She climbed the maintenance scales, as slow as she could to reduce her noise. She reached the last steps, then extended herself to grab the flat roof’s
