We could have been followed, walking blind into circumstance. You're being punished for not listening to the ABC, he said. I had missed a story on some great liner coming in from a lap of the Pacific with hundreds, or was it dozens, of sick passengers. There were muffled secrets. They all stank as they squatted on holiday toilets. He could see them without being there. The gift was strong some days, his clairvoyance, moving beyond mere empathy. He could reach across the city and actually see them, clutching their stomachs as doctors arrived, the ambulances lined up along the dock, the freaked out pretending to be efficient management from the liner; the presence of the media making everything worse.
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We could have been followed, walking blind into circumstance. You're being punished for not listening to the ABC, he said. I had missed a story on some great liner coming in from a lap of the Pacific with hundreds, or was it dozens, of sick passengers. There were muffled secrets. They all stank as they squatted on holiday toilets. He could see them without being there. The gift was strong some days, his clairvoyance, moving beyond mere empathy. He could reach across the city and actually see them, clutching their stomachs as doctors arrived, the ambulances lined up along the dock, the freaked out pretending to be efficient management from the liner; the presence of the media making everything worse.