“You’re a mud pie.” Amber tops his head with grass.<\/p>\n
“I’m the king of the forest,” Doug says gravely. “Except grass gives you chiggers. Brain chiggers, and I die.”<\/p>\n
“The king can cure chiggers,” she says.<\/p>\n
“Isn’t that scrofula?”<\/p>\n
Amber’s suddenly tired. “Okay. I guess you’re dead then, sorry.”<\/p>\n
“Is this just the pattern with us?” Doug asks. “Leap and leap and it’s all very lovely, until one of us asks where we’re going to land?”<\/p>\n
She rolls away, then rolls back. “Maybe we keep jumping.”<\/p>\n
“Might land in a mud pie.”<\/p>\n
“I always,” says Amber, “ate the damn things anyway.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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