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my business. I'm not an actuary. Besides, it’s inappropriate for a member of the Constabulary to lecture another member on how to do their job. Besides which, I could have been wrong. Crunching the numbers of the township's public income statements wouldn't have revealed a large financial donor to the school that year. Bristol Area Middle School probably could have purchased new technology with funds received from other sources.

  “So I had a dream whereby everything happened as it's happening now. But I'm having trouble telling the difference between what's real and what's in my head. Even as I speak, I’m only remembering parts of what I had dreamed. I never said anything because I never thought I would end up flying into a light-shielded sky harbor. I mean, such things don't usually occur.

  “I remembered that part of the dream well enough, even after the rest of it faded from my memory. So what do I say now that the most improbable part of that dream has actually happened? Did I experience a two-week-long precognitive vision?

  “And you may be wondering, what's a precognitive dream? I suppose the easiest way to define it is when you see the future in your dreams. Either way, only two possibilities are plausible-- that I'm still dreaming, or that this is reality and my subconscious predicted everything that’s happened thus far.”

  Unquill took a deep breath, then exhaled sharply. “It's a lot to wrap your head around, isn't it?”

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