Chapter 4

They’d be landing in New York, at La Guardia, in about fifteen minutes, give or take their current holding pattern.  Langly shifted imperceptibly in his narrow seat to steal a peek at Scully nestled against him.  She'd fallen off nearly ten minutes or so into the flight, after insisting that she wasn't tired.  But once she'd adjusted her head to the contour of his biceps, she was gone.  No, she wasn't tired; she was exhausted.

He puckered his mouth, and bit its insides. Eventually, an unpretentious smile budded.  Scully snored.  Who'd have thought?  There were gobs of things he didn't know about her 'unsnoopable' personal side, he realized. Despite having done his hacker homework on her.  What's her favorite color?  Does she like dogs or cats better; or both equally?

Would she ever consider doing a Ramones concert with me?  Well, maybe work up to that, he intuited.

But then, why should he know such things?  When had any extra curricula, exempt case investigation time been made for such discoveries?  She certainly wasn't one of his regular sleep mates; and never would be.

But cool was cool.  For the here and now, he enjoyed being her pillow, although his right shoulder had gone completely numb.  At this glitch in the continuum, there were scads of things he found himself being for her; a crutch, an arm and headrest, an out-and-out doormat. Yet, it was perfectly all right.  All of it.  Even her clamoring for him not to leave her side for more than a minute.  It was better than all right with him.  Besides, he didn't want to be the cause of her shedding anymore tears.

The idea of imposition was not even a pre-cognitive connection.  Her need to have him close to her, although artificially-inspired, made him glow with a warmth which was doing wonders thawing out his intrinsically myopic sensibilities forged in high school, and which had shadowed him throughout most of his university and post-graduate studies.

Usually sensing himself to be socially challenged, he'd taken refuge in immersing himself in his academic pursuits rather than pursuing duplicitous romantic involvements.  His introverted feelings of debilitating awkwardness and chronic bashfulness 'around girls,' were being squashed beneath the crush of her urgent requests, commanding pouts and those sweet things she did with her eyes.  Man--those hallucinogenic eyes!

Her insistence that they were a couple, even though he knew they'd never be one, once she was back to normal, had him entranced.  Her stubbornness ruled, and was a tickler.  There was no known antidote for being under this particular brand of the Scullyspell, he deliberated.  He went with it hook, line and unblinking.  No hesitation involved at this point.  'Nada.'  Spanish again, he halted in mid-thought ream.  Frohike's persistence IS payin' off.

Langly sighed.  Yeah, well back to what enthralled.  Being desired so fiercely was hypnotic.  It harked back to his drug days, and he recalled what he'd told her at the movies.  If they had been a couple back then, he wouldn't have dropped even as much as an aspirin.  Feeling good sans chemical stimulus would have been the order of the day.

Was this what feeling so desired did to a man?  Desired?  No.  The more accurate terminology was craved, hungered for; lusted after.  Down with that...well, let's not go extreme, he cautioned.  Although, it was as if she'd never get enough of him, though. And all he'd allowed them to do was smooch and hug a few times; if technicality were being infused into the picture.

Of all the dumb luck.  He ordered himself not to get used to this set-up.  What sense did it make to get comfy in a relationship (the contextual texture of the word made him feel good, so his mind okayed its usage) that had no future?  A fluke of a relationship.  Susanne would be at the airport with her junk to shoot Scully up, and back to reality.

Oh, well, he rationalized, and renewed his interest in the laptop’s version of the schematic he'd downloaded from his dedicated system, at least I got to live the dream for a little while.  A dream I get to say was real until her trip ended.

...'She's so high, high above me.  She's so lovely...she's so high...like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc...or Aphrodite... she's so high; high above me...

'She comes to speak to me...I freeze immediately...'cause what she says sounds so unreal...(not one hundred percent sure of the exact lyrics which followed, Langly, as was his habit, ad libbed) and somehow I can't believe that anything should happen...I know where I belong and nothin's gonna happen...'

<Gotta get that CD now, man.  Tal Bachman saw this comin'>

Langly gazed upon Scully lost in aspiration, thinking, for a fraction of a second, that for as many times as she'd kissed him, one of the smackers would have taken, and he should've been a prince by now.

His gray matter seemed to work a lot better at this altitude of thirty-five thousand feet, he considered, rather than at their, at times, claustrophobic den; despite his present ride on the roller coaster of emotional vagaries.  He hastened to encode his last bit of finagling with the problematic program before saving it for safekeeping.  There was something intransigently familiar about that last gush of data.  Why was Susanne's antidote's molecular formula messing with his head?  Though obtuse in atomic structure, there was a haunting similarity in its atomicity with...with...

"Cutie?"  Scully rolled her head back, as though doing so in slow motion, to loll against her seat’s rigid backrest, trying to focus bleary eyes.  "Wh...where are we?"  They captured his, and held them fast.

Momentarily, he thought she was herself again, with 'the look', she was giving him; the gavel at the ready.  But, nope, she was still on ionospheric leave, he agilely assessed.  There was no way she'd still be calling him, 'cutie,' and flashing those sumptuous bedroom eyes at him if she were no bunk Scully, returned.  "We're on the shuttle, Dana.  We're in the process of making our approach."

"Shuttle?" she said in a small, uncertain voice.  "Are w-we in sp-space?"

"Uh-uh, nah.  Negatory."  He grinned at her, skimming her nose with his index finger, with her looking so angelic, but, so wholly doped-up.  "You're spaced out, but we ain't astronauts."  He removed an errant strand of hair from her nose which was straddling it.  "We're on the flight from D-C to New York.  As in City."  Single-handedly, he closed the cover down over the laptop.  "We're breezin' into the Big Green Apple to hook you up, Punkin."

"I'm thir...sty..."  All of what he'd just said made no sense.

He brushed his fingertips against her downy, flushed cheek.  "I'll get you a Poland Spring after we land.  That should be real soon."

She stuck her lower lip out, and he knew he was a goner.  "B...But I want a-a ice coffee--now!  Pleeeese?"  She yawned widely then, and assailed his eyes with hers again, drowning him in her pools of limpid aqua.

Langly tore his eyes away from her face in search of a flight attendant.  "Lemme see what I can do, Dana..."  Seated on the aisle of the small, two seats across aircraft, as he was, he stuck his head out into the narrow walkway and scouted for some personnel.  Off to the right, and a row up, the conversation Byers and Mulder were carrying on momentarily snagged his attention.

"So, what did you tell Skinner?"

"As little as possible.  Told him Scully and I are meeting a contact in New York with a hot lead on the current case."  Mulder looked out the window, to note the dusk extending its reach over the eastern seaboard.  The pastel hues of blues, oranges and reds which suffused the cloud cover, bespoke of the warm spring day's former lighted beauty.  "He's really good about these things when I don't give him straight answers.  Something I've learned the hard way over the years."  He turned back to Byers.  "How much did Susanne tell you over the phone?"

"Not much, of course.  She can't risk... well, you know.  She's safe as long as she keeps them confident of her loyalty, and second guessing."  Perilously, for as long as they needed her.  He knew that was a critical fact of her life.  Byers looked at his watch, and wondered how much longer they'd be up in the air.  Fear, linked to dread, for her weighed heavily on his mind.  "I brought her up to speed on Scully's present predicament."

"What did she say when you told her?"

"It's what she didn’t say, Mulder."  Byers forced himself to look his distraught friend in the eyes. "Scully's condition may be quite unrelated to any post aftereffects of her derivatives... she'll have to give her a thorough examination, first, before reaching any conclusion."

"Well, I should hope so," Mulder tossed, in wiseacre tenor, sounding hotly ticked off.  "But, I'll tell you right now, she's not off the hook until Scully's Scully again.  Even if Susanne has to make curing her, HER LIFE'S WORK, that's the way it'll be.  She's the organic chemical expert.  Like it or not, Scully's her hapless guinea pig now."  Mulder sat up as though being called to attention in his seat, willing Byers' comprehension of the profound import attached to every word he'd just uttered.

Langly nodded in composite agreement.  His hearing was clarity itself thanks to his religiously having worn earplugs to every headbanger concert he'd ever attended over the course of many years.

"Wh-where’s my ice coff--"

"Working, working," Langly assured.  He stuck his laptop into the pocket of the preceding seat, unbuckled his seat belt and popped up as though wired, but wobbly.  Spying an attendant in the tail section, he said to Scully, "I'll be right back.  Won't be long.  Real deal."

"If th-they don't have i-ice coffee, make i-it Coke!"

"No Coke," Langly corrected.

"Pepsi th-then!"

"It's decaffeination, or nothing.  C'mon, be cool.  It's for your own good, Punkin..."

"No-no-no.  I wa-want--"

"Is everything okay here?"  The short-haired, five foot, three inches tall female attendant from the tail section approached, sounding solicitous.  "Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to take your seat.  The Captain has the seatbelts light turned on."

"No prob.  It's just, uh...can.  Can my friend here--"

"I'm NOT his friend, Mi-iss.  I'm h-his GIRLfriend!  He-he's mine--you can't have h-him!"

Langly energetically nodded to appease Scully.  "Yeah, cool.  She's my ol' lady."  Under his breath, he said to the attendant, "A totally possessive chick."  Speaking normally again, he continued, "'Kay, like can she get a little water?  She's big time thirsty."  As if knowing what the attendant was going to say, he hurriedly added, "Not a news flash.  We're about to nest, but can she get some?  She's the kind of chick you don't wanna say no to.  Least I don't.  Would appreciate it heaps."

"The only thing we've got left in the way of beverages is Pepsi."

"Pepsi.  Yes, please," Scully said, beaming.

"No Pepsi, Dana."

"Yes Pepsi, Cutie!"  The determination to have what she wanted was a palpable entity.  With nostrils flared, and temper tantrum eyes, she suckered him in.  Todeny her would be his Waterloo of recrimination.

Langly scratched his head, looking baffled; acutely stressed-out.  His resolve to be firm depleted; on a hiatus of compromise. "Cou...uh, could you make it a very little Pepsi, Miss?  We're tryin' to wean her off the stuff."

"Right-o, sir, I'll bring it."

"Yeah, thanks."  Once Langly had plopped himself back down into his seat, he gave Scully a [you don't play fair] look to acknowledge, "Winning's getting to be a real bad habit with you.  Hope she makes 'very little,' very little.  But who knows?  Maybe at this stage having more caffeine won't make any diff.  Lettin' you have it beats makin' me feel like a heel.  So, go ahead, knock yourself out."  He faked roping her into a headlock.

Scully flinched back, but when she realized he was clowning said, "You a-are so sweet, Cutie.  'Sp-specially when y-you talk b-big, an'...an' kooky.  I-I like you a-a whole bu-bunch.  Th-this much..."

She measured off his likeableness on her makeshift imaginary scale with a generously wide span between her outstretched hands, and followed that up with more kissing on his cheek, nose, then the other cheek.  Behaving as if she'd done this for most of her life, she nestled her face into the niche of his neck, sighing contentedly.  His baby fine hair felt delicious against her face.

"Thanks, and you're welcome."  Langly tweaked her nose affectionately.  When her Pepsi came, he swiped it out of the attendant's hand, and took a big slurp from the plastic cup, which did leave very little for Scully.  Just to be on the safe side, he judged.

She didn't seem to mind what he'd done, and drained the cup dry.  "I lo-love Pepsi!" she said, and then chortled into the cup.

"I'm still getting that Poland Spring, or any bottled H-two-oh on hand for ya, once we land.  Your getting dehydrated ain't in the plan."  He re-buckled his seatbelt and closed his eyes, easing his head against the headrest.  A goofy guy smile diffused over his relaxed face after she’d left off kissing both eyelids.  Once having gingerly removed his glasses, that is.

"'I wish that I had Jessie's girl,'" he began singing, a tad off key, which made Scully laugh.  "...Where can I find me a woman like that..."  He opened his eyes, coaxed her to give him back his ocular pride and joy, and drilled her impish eyes with his.  "Yep, real used to you," he told her, and nudged her cheek with his nose.  <A pinch of the way you normally are, an' a whole lotta how you are now, Baby!>  "Word-up, Daaaay--na."

His seat's backrest bucked suddenly then, and Frohike jumped to his feet, following the violent kick he'd just planted.  Scully's cup flew out of her hand, leaving her looking disoriented and somewhat perplexed.

"Man, this turbulence sucks," Langly griped, with an obnoxious sounding barb mired in his deftly aimed tone.  "Better make sure you're cinched tight, Princess.  Can't lose you now."

"Keep your gnarly meathooks to yourself, you fugitive from a...from a...a uh ...commune," Frohike rained down from overhead.

Langly guffawed.  "Commune?  Is that the best you can crank, 'Grumpy?'" he rejoined with a snort.  "I tried livin' in one, once, just afta turnin' twenty-one.  Couldn't get inta all that natural turf. Missed Mickey Dee's too much.  Those plantations are more your speed, Mista Potato Head."

"Up yours, Lord Geeks-R-Us."

"Get bent, So-icky.  Hey, when was the last time you squinted at yourself in a mirror?"

"At least I can see my face.  With all that hair, how do you tell the front from the back, Goldilocks?  I still say that when we make the scene with Susanne, we convince her to shoot you up with A-H Gas, make the suggestion, and shove scissors in your hand.  No--make that a razor.  The cue ball look would suit you."

Raising his voice, Langly reprehended, zeroing in for the deciding verbal strafe. "You're almost there, baldie, check it out.  You didn't give Rogaine a total chance."

"Shut-up, Langly!"

"Make me!"

"'Ya! Basta ya!  Este es el colmo!'"  Silvio broke out in Spanish (of the mercurial variety); his second language.  He was as fluent in it, as he was in his native tongue, with English a neck and neck third.  Although, he had a most distinct way of wrapping his English around the thought he was trying to convey.

"Does this 'inutil' bickering never cease?" he spouted, sounding exactly as though he fit in as one of the 'boys.'  "I decided to join, aside from the point that there was no time to detail my discoveries at your place, because I start to care about the welfare of the 'bellita,' the beautiful one, but these 'broncas' these spats must finish!  If not, I am on the next flight to Rio.  I leave you with the encrypted facts, undeciphered.

"And, I do not think you will have an easy time deciphering the information since the code to crack is Porto-Esparanto.  By the time you find one of the two people other than me in 'Brasilia' who can translate, the information will be of little value then."

Frohike angled around from Langly’s backrest to glare at Silvio.  "Don't sweat us, man.  Putting 'Gangly' (trumpeting the misnomer for sardonic emphasis) in his place is my way of life," he advised, but kept Silvio's warning under advisement.  He sat back down before the slimmer of the two female attendants had the chance to open her intriguing mouth, as Frohike assessed, directing him to buckle back up.

"Yo, So-icky, out-dissed ya this round no con..."

"It's a draw, Garth--and I DON'T mean Brooks," Frohike nimbly bantered, then genuflected like the sport he was pretending to be, to Silvio.

"Hey, 'Hike, where'd you say you're from again...uh, it's NOME, Alaska, right?  Hullo--"

"Don't fi-fight with 'Hi-k-kee!" Scully puled.

She pouted childishly, then cracked the twist of a teasing smile at Langly, looking like a sprite gamine in her late teens.  She stroked his peach fuzz stubbly cheek lightly, and extracted his true sentiments, along with his grin which widened her smile.

"We're not fighting...well, not exactly.  See..."  He winked, then reached around her to raise the window's shade as the flight attendant, who possessed the mouth much to Frohike’s liking, instructed.  She sauntered off to reclaim her position at her station.  "It's this game we slide into.  Sorta like can you dis this.  We've been doin' it ever since knowin' each other.  Translation...eons of time."

"Dis?"

"Disrespect.  Major league put-downs."

"B-But, I-I like 'Hike."

Close to her ear, he murmured, "Yeah, me too.  He's my bestest bud, but I'll never tell.  We don't mean most of what we fling.  Just goofin' on each other, is all.  Keeps us minimally sane.  He an' Byers, an' yours truly of course...well, we're family.  We're totally tight.  Like we're sibs.  I'm the middle kid so I get to act like a punk all I want.  But, man, I'd feel naked without my bros.  Stark, starin' naked if we ever went our separate ways.  At least, I think I would..."  He sighed and regarded the crown of her head thoughtfully.  My bread's on it's intensely natural, he concluded, once and for all.  None of that outta a box stuff for her.

"Naked?--"

[FLIGHT ATTENDANTS, PREPARE FOR LANDING]

"Uh huh," Langly confirmed with an unequivocal toss of his glossy mane.

"I...I wan-na do na-ked with y-you, Cutie.  Please?  You...y-you're the b-best.  I l-like you b-best!  Pleaaase?" One could have cut the conviction in her voice with a machete.

<Dana in birthday suit, and she won't stop twistin' MY arm to be the birthday boy--God!  Gimme shelter to hang tough, for holdin' out>

His sugar-coated imagery sent his throat muscles into spasms.  The familiar, undaunted hotness scaled the heights of his neck, with rapid blushing in tow, and the subsequent lowering, and casting of his eyes away from the supple source of enticement, steadying the rope he usually hanged himself with.  His tried and true self-deprecating habits, well-traveled norms which relentlessly prodded when anything remotely connected with confronting feminine sexuality head-on, were hard to break.  He tried clearing his closed throat, but it wouldn't.  His reply was protracted, and the wistfulness embedded in his voice was surf-worthy.

"That screams, Punkin, and once you're straight, if that idea doesn't bite, then, sure--we'll rap.  But I'm not getting my heart set, Princess.  NONE of what you're sayin' or doin' is real.  When your head's screwed on nice an' tight again, it'll be back to negative square one.  I'm not a realist for nothin'," he awarded, solely for his benefit.

Scully blinked sleepily and re-settled her head on his shoulder with a yawn.  Langly brushed his lips against her perspiring forehead, and leaned the side of his swimming head weightlessly against hers, wishing for the moon.

"T-take me ho-home, Cutie..."

Following the ebb and flow of several weight shifting moments, there was a remarkable series of gentle bumps, followed by the nearly imperceptible releases of a good many addled exhalations.

"That's the whole idea, Princess.  ...'Cause, it'll keep bein' said way long after we're all gone.  There's no place like it..."

ONE-HALF HOUR LATER
6:45 p.m. Delta Terminal

"Whose bag are we still waiting for?"  Mulder demanded to know, looking about him in nitpicky fashion.

"Byers'.  Who else's?" Frohike piped up, feeling just as impatient.  He observed how his distinguished-looking friend, with the Brazilian in his company, were hovering closest to the baggage carousel's egress of anybody who was, as of yet, agonizing over the non-appearance of their luggage.

"Where's the odd couple?"

Frohike glowered, constraining himself never to think of them in those terms.  "He's getting her something to drink.  Again."

"Whereupon she'll promptly need to take another leak."  Mulder grimaced, reliving the embarrassment of he and Langly having had to talk her through unlocking the plane's lavatory door after she'd accidentally locked herself in.  "Her thirst has got to be another symptom connected with this condition."

Begrudging his agreement with a nod, Frohike snatched up his compact, but solidly-packed flight shoulder bag and stalked over to the carousel to join Silvio and the still expectant Byers.  What did Scully see, even through sloshed eyes, in ragtag Lord Wusshammer, anyway?

The Freudian implications made him want to swear off women forever; well, perhaps not all women.  Just one drop dead gorgeous, outshiningly stubborn redhead.  He knew he was being petty, what with she so not herself, but he couldn’t help it. Of the three of them, (he didn’t include Byers, naturally) he was the only one who'd made no bones about broadcasting his head over heels, "'bad' jones" he had for Scully.  In what unholy book was it written that Langly was the guy with the inside track?  At least where her subconscious was concerned.  The nerdiest one of our merry bunch is her subjective heartthrob?  The waste--the total injustice of it all, man!

<Why, even in Vegas, they'd waltzed off to dinner, arm and arm, much to my shock.  Way before all this crapola came down.  Scully was smiling so, the next morning, I thought she must've scored--but with Langly, a guy who thinks sharin' a box of Cracker Jack at a movie matinee is romantic?  No way, I'll never buy it>

With these, and many more disturbing ideas swirling in his mind, he made like the ‘black oil’ through the crowd of people milling at the carousel, until he stood beside Byers.  "I see you, and your baggage haven’t been reunited yet."

"No.  Not..."  He paused, wondering whether a man dressed in Army and Navy store fatigues was clutching his rollie.  "No, not yet."

"I think you should stop wasting time here, man.  Go file a lost luggage claim, so we can hit it.  Susanne won't wait at the taxi stand all night, ya know."

"I know," Byers grumbled, clearly irritated, "but I don't want to leave without..."

"C'mon, let's move.  Your little chickadee's not about to fly without us."

"Wait, Frohike, here it comes..."

In the midst of the terminal's hubbub of a food court, Langly looked on in dismay as Scully grabbed the chilled can of Coke, and a huge salt-encrusted pretzel from the overworked, short on patience male food server.  Langly allowed his head to languish, and as he did so, rifled a fleeting glance at the droplet-beaded bottle of Naya in his hand, and shrugged.

"Guess she's gotta have it," he mitigated and sighed in resignation.  "I have some serious chillin' ta do.  It's all moot.  Relief is just a pop away through those doors.  Then the bubble bursts.  The one an' only looker who ever wanted me picks up all her marbles and books out of Langlyland as fast as the lab-conjured scuzz can carry her.  Craptacular."  The way it's gotta play, he roundly hounded himself.  <You really are some kind of egomaniacal pisser.  Da-da, you are what you reap>

"That'll be five-fifty, ma'am," the complaisant cashier, a heart-shaped faced Dominican woman, with a flawless cinnamon complexion, in her late twenties, seated at the far end of the food service area, called down.  So adept at her job was she, she'd already done the retail math.  "You can pay for that here."

Langly gently ushered Scully along down the line, past indecisives who couldn't make up their minds, despite the limited choices.  "I got hers, and this water.  What's the damage?"

The perky, long-haired Latina grinned at them both, immediately taking a liking to the duo.  "The damage's eight even, sir."  She studied Langly's platinum tresses, wondering whether she should allow Blanca, her homegirl, who was enrolled in cosmetology school, to bleach her hair for her next homework assignment.

"Two bills and two shiny coins with George's face minted on 'em for this?"  He hefted the eight ounces of liquid in conjunction with his contesting expression which was the epitome of 'is this for real?'

"Airport prices," the young lady kidded, with a playful glint in her eye.  "Legit rip-off, Port Authority style.  We have a suggestion box..."

"Got that right.  Hey, if I had more time, I'd drop in my two cents," Langly jibed, and dug into his jacket pocket to fish out his wallet.  "There ya go, and yo, keep the change.  We don't even have time to wait for the rung up receipt."

"Hey, thanks," the cashier said after Of the threten dollar bill.  "Here, take these."  She grappled up two Milky Way bars and fairly threw them at Langly as he made the hasty in tandem getaway.  "They're a buck each.  You look like a guy who's up on the down stroke with candy."

Langly nodded in grand satisfaction...a 'compadra.'  He favored her with a generous, we speak the same language type of grin.  "'Muchas, muchas.'  Up all the way."

"Later," she bade to Langly's and Scully's departing forms.  As she watched them disappear on the escalator, she made up her mind.  Blanca would have her first unofficial customer tonight.

It took them all of two minutes to arrive at the bustling taxi stand, to regroup with their companions, just in time to see a light-skinned black man, about Mulder's build and stature, bee bop walk away from Byers.

With his mouth agape, he read the scrap of paper which had been shoved into his hand.  He began mouthing the written words.

"A mash note?" Langly inquired, swaggering up to Byers to get a look.

"No."  Byers telegraphed his disquietude to Mulder with a haunted facial expression.  "It's from Susanne."

"She's not coming, is she," Mulder said.  Byers handed him the message.  He finished reading it, then said cryptically, "Quickest way to Sea Gate in Brooklyn.  Anybody know?"

Following his preventing Scully from opening up the laptop, Langly spirited the note out of Mulder’s hand.  After mentally digesting it, he smugly replied, "B-Q-E to the Belt.  Cropsey Ave. exit.  Used to live here.  In the Village for about two years.  My 'Panic in Needle Park' blackout days.  They'll be traffic strangulation at this hour though."  He handed the note back to Byers and patted him on the back.  "I'm sure everything's cool.  Don't go postal."

"I'll get a car," Mulder stated, already on the move.  "It's times like these when having an expense account comes in real handy.  Everybody stay put till I pull up in the rental, ahead of the stand."

Frohike turned to Byers and said, "I don't like this, buddy.  Why couldn't she come herself?  Or call even?"

Byers nodded.  "Neither do I, and I'm afraid to speculate why."  Worriedly, he looked at the note again.  "I hope she's all right..."

"I hope the same for us," Frohike said in obdurate solemnity as, protectively, he slipped his arm around Scully's waist.

Langly nodded, looking just as solemn, and for reassurance, gently placed his hand on Melvin's shoulder.  "Yeah, me three..."

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