5D+Tuck+Everlasting

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__Prologue__
"...things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A Ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late."

__Chapter 1__
"In the end, however, it was the cows who were responsible for the wood's isolation, and the cows, through some wisdom they were not wise enough to know that they possessed, were very wise indeed. If they had made their road through the wood instead of around it then the people would have followed the road. The people would have noticed the giant ash tree at the center of the wood, and then, in time, they'd have noticed the little spring bubbling up among its roots in spite of the pebbles piled there to conceal it. And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin."

__Chapters 2 & 3__
"I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting -- something that's all mine. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world. It would be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much."

Chapter 4
"Then the moon rose. The man came to himself and sighed. His expression was one of intense satisfaction. He put on his hat, and in the moonlight his long fingers were graceful and very white. Then he turned and disappeared down the shadowy road, and as he went he whistled, very softly, the tinkling melody from the wood."

__Chapter 5__
"She began to creep forward. She would go just close enough, she told herself. Just close enough to see. And //then// she would turn and run. But when she came near, up behind a sheltering tree trunk, and peered around it, her mouth dropped open and all thought of running melted away." "'Believe me, Winnie Foster,' said Jesse, 'it would be terrible for you if you drank any of this water. Just terrible. I can't let you.'"

__Chapter 6__
"...though her heart was pounding and her backbone felt like a pipe full of cold running water, her head was fiercely calm." "Only then did it come to Winnie that she ought to shout, wave her arms, do //something//."

__Chapter 7__
"'Pa thinks it's something left over from-well, from some other plan for the way the world should be,' said Jesse. 'Some plan that didn't work out too good...'"

__Chapter 8__
"And Winnie, laughing at him, lost the last of her alarm. They were friends, //her// friends. She was running away after all, but she was not alone. Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she'd always wished she had."

__Chapter 9__
"The pastures, fields, and scrubby groves they crossed were vigorous with bees, and crickets lept before them as if each step released a spring and flung them up like pebbles. But everything else was motionless, dry as a biscuit, on the brink of burning, hoarding final reservoirs of sap, trying to hold out till the rain returned, and Queen Ann's lace lay dusty on the surface of the meadows like foam on a painted sea."

__Chapter 10__
"And then it sometimes comes over me and I wonder why it happened to //us//."

__Chapters 11-12__
"I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread." "I never thought we'd come to the place where we'd be scaring children." "We ain't part of the wheel no more."

__Chapters 13-14__
"We could have a grand old time, go all around the world, see everything. Listen, Ma and Pa and Miles, they don't know how to enjoy it, what we got. Why, heck, Winnie, life's to enjoy yourself, isn't it?"

__Chapter 15__
"So: I want the wood and you want the child. It's a trade. A simple, clear-cut trade."

__Chapter 16__
"'Course, we got gallows of our own, if we ever need it."

Chapter 17
"Her name was Anna. Lord, how sweet she was, that child! It's queer to think she'd be close to eighty now, if she's even still alive. And my son-he'd be eighty-two.'"

Chapters 22-23
"Winnie clutched the little bottle in her hands and tried to control the rising excitement that made her breath catch. At midnight she would make a difference in the world."

__Chapters 24-Epilogue__
"The first week of August was long over. And now, though autumn was still some weeks away, there was a feeling that the year had begun its downward arc, that the wheel was turning again, slowly now, but soon to go faster, turning once more in its changeless sweep of change."

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