' 'You did?' Angel said. The fumes made his eyes tear a little; he'd never understood how Larch could like the stuff. He's been comin' here for years, but he was a hero. It was dark when he woke up, and since he couldn't see how far below the ground was, he didn't dare to free himself from the chute cords until morning.
'No,' Homer said. As a child he was [33] embarrassed to be caught staring at adults, sometimes affectionately, other times with an instinctual hostility he would not have recognized on his own face. 'No, really, I'm not going to hurt you—I'm just going to look. In this way, after three days, he had the impression that the jungle was either thinning out or that he was getting better at picking his way through it.
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