“Under what circumstances do you think you might want to…return to the real world?”

— Tim Powers

The real world and I never did get along, she thought.
“I can’t imagine,” she said.
Epilogue, “I Have No Idea” (p. 287; closing words)
Stolen Skies (2022)

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