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The Understudy Always Knows the Lines
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Mara backs away from Hollis. "How do you know what's on the card?" He smiles sadly. "Every lead writes them. The theatre takes your memory of tonight and hands it back as a script. Lenore stopped following hers." He glances at the stage. "That's why she's still in there."
Mara decides to follow her cards exactly, every one of them, hoping that obeying is a way out. She performs the whole strange play alone on a dark stage, hitting every mark the cards predicted. At the final line, the lights drop. When they rise, the seats are full of past leads applauding, and a new index card waits in her hand for tomorrow night.
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