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and smiled. “I’d like to see Mao’s Last Dancer , please. Overcoming all the odds and following one’s dream to make a new life for oneself is very appropriate for me right now.”
    He hadn’t thought of it like that until she said the words, but of course she was correct. “I’ll tell Taliesin. The movie can’t begin until midnight, because I didn’t want you to be put in danger by random customers seeing you.”
    “That’s fine. It’s not like I have to be up early tomorrow morning and race off to work. Are there any tasks Hawthorne and I could do for you here? Or maybe some paperwork for one of the companies in the professional suites where we could be in a back room somewhere no one would see us? We’re both used to working, not sitting around idly all day long.”
    “I hadn’t thought of that. I guess it must be very boring for you,” said Rhion.
    “Not boring precisely. At first we were both very tired. Emotionally as much as physically. But now we’re safe and rested it’d be good if we could be doing something helpful as well, no matter how boring and repetitive.”
    Cadfael looked at Rhion. This wasn’t really his purview although it seemed likely that another pair of hands would always be welcomed.
    “I expect the center manager, Dylan, would be able to put you both to work. I’ll ask him tomorrow. Meanwhile, what would you like to do for the next few hours?” asked Rhion.
    Cadfael looked at her with great interest, wondering what she’d suggest.
    “Eilidh took Hawthorne and me to look at some of the stores when the center was closed. Would we able to look at some of the offices and the rest of this tower? What’s up here, exactly?”
    “Most of it is just offices, which I think you’ll find incredibly boring. But we could walk around a little. I guess you’d like to get out of the apartment. If we’re careful we could take you back down to the stores, where people on the fourth floor are unlikely to notice you.”
    “I hadn’t thought about it until now, but Eilidh did have us walk a very set route, possibly to keep us safe from being observed. We certainly didn’t see any people at all. She spoke to the security people too.”
    “Yes, we need to do that. We don’t want to set off any alarms. But sure, let’s take a walk. It’s not very exciting, although exercise is always good,” said Cadfael.
    “I knew he’d say that. He’s always bullying people into walking up the stairs instead of taking the elevator,” complained Rhion.
    Cadfael just grinned at his best friend, while Willow laughed out loud.
     
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    Willow was glad she was wearing her athletic shoes. Actually she was getting really tired of having so few clothes with her, but at least most of them were clean again. One thing she had wondered about was getting her parents’ house packed up and everything sent somewhere, but she’d decided against that plan as she’d have to pay for storage, and even if she collected some clothing, or the picture albums, or anything, Bailey might follow the goods and find Hawthorne and her again. Whereas, if they did nothing, worst-case scenario they’d just have to buy a couple more outfits of clothing.
    She enjoyed climbing up and down a few flights of stairs. She wasn’t a gym junkie, but she’d always been moderately fit. The same as Hawthorne, she liked going for long walks, and she also enjoyed swimming in a heated swimming pool. Not in the cold local lakes though. The men showed her the conference rooms on the sixth floor, walked her past a series of offices with etched glass windows naming who worked there, then took her up onto the roof, where she could look out over the city.
    “The view’s spectacular. You ought to set up a roof garden so people could eat lunch out here in summer,” she said.
    “We’ve thought of renovating this area several times. We’d have to reprogram the elevators though, but I suppose that wouldn’t be too big a challenge for a