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Where would you like to go today?  The tone was flat.  Cameron closed
the book.  She had spent the whole morning looking for conflict, but it
hadn't been necessary to look; Andrew piled into the vehicle and away
they went.
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At certain angles the glass seemed to depolarize, and the glint of
morning sunlight cut into her eyes, making her sorry she'd awakened
for...  this.  Andrew was deep into his book, never looking up.  She
leaned back in her puffy seat, still not sure she was really awake.
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Dapples of whatever on the dusty dashboard.  She noticed housekeeping had
skipped the car.  Andrew, of course, couldn't care less.  She tried
not to touch the arm rests with her fingertips, as Andrew elbowed her
absentmindedly.
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Tried again to listen to her book but it was no use, she couldn't
concentrate on the words.  Her mind kept wandering to the scenery,
swaying trees and bushes whipping by outside.  She made her window dark and
closed her eyes.
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Thump.  Thump.  Thump.  She was awake again.  Seams in the highway.
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Andrew had dozed.  Nearer to the coast, now, she could begin to make
out the island's visual effects.  Mostly, the sunlight still disrupted
the integrity of the images.  That and its reflections on the water.
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She was thirsty, but Andrew had finished off the last of the
grapefruit juice.  She watched him sleeping, still annoyed.
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The big curve around the mountain came right on schedule.  The car
banked, reducing its speed only slightly, and Cameron was tipped
off\-balance, momentum pressing her firmly into her door handle.  The
fluid in her ears shifted and she gritted her teeth at the familiar
lurch in her stomach.  She hated the car.
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Andrew had awakened and moved on to another book.  She decided to have
a look at whatever he'd been reading before he fell asleep.  There were
crumbs in the pages, she realized, as breakfast debris rained onto her
lap.  She stared hard at him but still he didn't look up.  Why would
he care, she acknowledged.
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The car wanted Andrew's attention but he told it to shut up.  Finally
he threw his book against the dash.  Cameron tried to sink into her
seat, ducking her head to avoid his flailing arms.  Now he was trying
to kick out the windshield, or something.  She put her hand on his shoulder and said
his word, which calmed him, for a while.  He apologized.
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It felt as if they would never arrive.
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Finally they did.  The boat was leaving, but they'd made it in time;
the ramps were still unfurled.  Cameron grabbed her bag and headed for
the ramp while Andrew fiddled with his trunk.  Their car pulled away and
rejoined to the flow of traffic.  Cameron waited at the top of the
ramp for Andrew to slowly trundled aboard.  "Do you really need to bring all
those things," she asked, knowing that he did.  He growled at her and
trundled away, leaving her to wonder, again, why she had to put up with him.
She'd have plenty of time to ponder the question during the voyage
home.