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We don't have time to talk about it, she said quietly. Time to get papoose. The river appeared to be a good distance into the Works, a dark clot of storage tanks,industrial piping, and lumpish low buildings. Was it a make-believe place, based on a famous story, butconstructed just for him? But that was impossible-

well, some men just liked to threaten women. Before anyone could say anything else, something knocked the plane sideways. But there is something strange happening. Groans and faint shrieks echoed through the damp corridors, ghostly withdistance, as though nightfall was bringing the Works to its fullest life.