Thousand: Six Hundred Sixty

keybox against the floor, sliding it back and forth between her hands. At first it’s just something to do, something to do unmindfully, the girl’s weariness having overtaken any thought of pushing things a little farther. If the box brightens when rubbed some, will it get really bright if you rub it a lot? It is actually some minutes before the girl recognizes she is conducting this experiment and that it is paying off. When it gets through at last that the box is giving off more light and more light, the girl grits her teeth and squeezes her eyes