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"But that's just it, Grady," said Melba, forgetting his victimization as thoughts of Bev Hat's deadness rushed back. "To know someone is alive you have to see them right now."

Grady Help blinked. "I don't see a lot of people right now, Melba," he said. "In fact, right now I see you. Only you, Melba." Melba spun around, gazed down the empty street. Above the street, a large black bag hanging from a wire snapped in the wind. Melba shuddered. The wind blew harder. The wire was anchored at each end in a metal eyelet driven between bricks in the facades of two opposite-facing buildings, and Melba detected the low sound of the eyelets groaning. Farther down the street, she noticed the flags that usually hung so limply from the cantilevered gaffs alongside the second-story windows of the Dan Hotel leaping about, bright and agitated. The wind was active, moving around, having effects, but it wasn't a person, and Melba looked back at Grady Help. He was right. She was the only one.