Astra's Three Mistakes

"Pushing Fred out of the window. You must have seen me doing it."

"Poor Astra! You're really losing it, aren't you? First, what makes you think that disposing of Fred would help? Second, your window is all of four feet above ground level. Third, and most important, you've just pushed an hallucination out of your window, Fred was never in your room." [Indeed he wasn't, in this branch.]

Astra sat down heavily in a chair. "It must be exhaustion," she said. "All the time that we were on that raft, I hardly had a wink of sleep. I knew that if I nodded off, I'd be sure to wake up to find you trying to grope me. I ought to tear you limb from limb to make sure that you don't talk, but I'd never get the bloodstains out of the carpet. So what do you want from me to keep the contents of those letters private?"

1. Robert tells Astra his terms.
2. Just then there is a knock at the door.
3. Just then Fred (this time real rather than imagined) and the hotties enter without knocking.

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