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THAT NIGHT, I discovered that babies don’t like sleeping when adults do. Twice, Nicha came into our room with the screaming baby for Thayu to calm down. Thayu, being Thayu, went back to sleep immediately, but I lay awake, worrying about things that might be happening where I couldn’t see them, things that would happen if I didn’t achieve certain other things, and things that had already happened, but I didn’t know about.
I worried about control of my gamra message account and messages Delegate Namion’s assistant said weren’t there, and potential ones that would be there and I didn’t want him to read.
The second time Nicha entered the room, I got out of bed intending to go to the kitchen to find something to eat, but when I let the door to our bedroom rattle shut behind me, I sensed mo
