Butterflies
with a weird handwave at them, before turning to look at me with an equally pleading expression, “I was probably too immersed in my reading.”
“I know,” I said, still smiling. Actually, I was trying hard not to think about what I'd just seen — it was just so funny. I don't know how people do it, but I've never found myself, completely, in a book. It was as though my nudge on the lad made a kind of electronical connection from the outside world to the book world, dragging him back to consciousness.
Standing up, he said with an outstretched arm, “I'm Anthony.”
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