**I'm the teddy bear.** (This was, he thought, Radcliffe's wife-image.)

Indecision. Realization. Withdrawal. Blank.

**Radcliffe, I'm the hole in the air.**

But Keller's reply was cut short by a cry of terror in his brain.

**RICK!**

It was Sally.


Keller went down immediately.

**What?** No response. **WHAT?** Still no response. Then he could hear her cry—fading in depth—now dying—gone.

**Radcliffe.**