“Alert!” she yells in her strange accent, looking around the train station with wild eyes. \u00c2\u00a0“My postilion has been struck by lightning!”<\/p>\n
Svetik starts toward her, but Zhenya puts a hand on her arm. \u00c2\u00a0“She’s just some coked-out tourist,” he says.<\/p>\n
“She said someone’s been hit by–”<\/p>\n
“It’s an old phrasebook thing,” says Zhenya. \u00c2\u00a0“Nonsense sentence to teach you some grammar rule.”<\/p>\n
“The monkey has taken my self-defense device!”<\/p>\n
“Ah,” says Svetik, “I see.”<\/p>\n
Not far down the road, the boy from the stagecoach twitches in the dirt; a macaque hoots, and squeezes the trigger again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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