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Does it have to be a judge? – she says.
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Oh, put that away before the boss comes – he hates it when she prints
out their stories on the newsroom printer.
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Don’t be so jumpy - Nasha rolls her eyes at Oblak who is trying to
clean up their desk. No more working for the paper, stopwatch-writing,
freak discoveries for the bloodthirsty readership. From now on, they are
real writers.
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Poor twins, they had it rough from the moment they were born. Their
mother, a scared, scorned servant girl, desperate, convinced it was her
fault the boys are like that, a penalty for that brief moment of carnal
abandonment – Nasha scribbles a note to herself on the printed page.
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Sure – Oblak smirks - and why not sell them to the circus-man, a
little gold never hurt anyone, show them as a warning to the world, for
purely educational purposes. After all, what God had brought together,
let no man…
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It must be terrible to be considered a freak just because you have your
brother with you all the time. Poor boys – Nasha puts her collection
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Poor us! – Oblak replies mechanically, nervous, as if he’s
shoplifting – Hurry up with those things!
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Maybe if they weren’t together, joined, they could’ve escaped –
Nasha concludes.
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I don’t think I’ll ever regret leaving this place – says Oblak.
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Just think of it, having to spend your entire lifetime with a person
without being able to run away from him – one sharpener is in a shape
of two round-faced children tossing a yellow ball. The ball looks like a
sun, it’s connected to both children’s hands. It will never fall
down.
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It’s much better to leave a place, than to have a place leave you… I
think that’s it! C’mon. Having second thoughts? – Oblak takes one
last look at their now ex office. They were good journalists, the two of
them, honest. Might be why it didn’t work for them.
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Let’s go! – Nasha grabs the bag in one hand and Oblak’s hand in
the other, laying the claim to their future.
The
editor, a short man with an oily face shining like a Moon, steps out of
his cubicle just in time to see their heels disappear in the elevator.
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