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The Other Hand on the Wheel
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The third driver doesn't get out. The car just sits there, engine running, wipers going. The two Maras wait. Nothing. Then the brown package, still under the other Mara's arm, starts to hum, the exact sound the retrochron makes. It's counting down to something.
The humming package gets louder until Mara grabs it and hurls it into the empty third car. The instant it lands, the car folds in on itself and vanishes, taking the sound with it. The other Mara exhales. 'That was the extra copy. The loop ate it.' Two of them left now, and one slip between them. They decide to burn it.
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