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|There was no need for [[Steve Ames|Steve]] and [[Collie Entragian|Collie ]] to hop the fence at the far end of [[Tom Billingsley|Doc's ]] yard; there was a gate, although they had to tear out a fair amount of well-entrenched ivy before they could use it. They exchanged words only twice before reaching the path. The first time it was Steve who spoke. He looked around at the trees - scrubby, weedy-looking things, for the most part, now mysterious with the rustle of rainwater dripping off the leaves - and then asked: 'Are these poplars?'<br>
Collie, who had been working his way around a particularly vicious clump of thornbushes, looked back at him. 'Say what?'<br>
'I asked if these trees are poplars. Since [[Poplar Street ]] is where we came from, I just wondered.'<br>
'Oh.' Collie looked around doubtfully, swapping the .30-.06 from one hand to the other and then running an arm across his forehead. It was very hot in the greenbelt. 'I don't know if they're poplars or pines or goddam eucalyptuses, to tell you the truth. Botany was never my thing. That one over there is a skinny-ass birch, and that's about all I know on the subject.' With that, he started off again. <br>
Five minutes later (Steve wondering by now if there really was a path back here, or only wishful thinking), Collie stopped. He looked back past Steve, his eyes so intense that Steve turned himself to see what he was looking at. He saw nothing but the tangled greenery through which they had already made their way. No sign of Old Doc's house; the [[Peter Jackson|Jacksons']], either. He could see a tiny wedge of red that he thought might be the chimney atop the [[Familie Carver |Carver]] house, but that was all. They almost could have been a hundred miles from the nearest human habitation. Thinking that - and realizing it was a true thought - gave Steve a chill. <br>
'What?' he asked, thinking the cop would ask him why they couldn't hear any cars, not even some kid's glasspack-equipped low-rider, or a single bass-powered sound-system, or a motorcycle, or a horn, or a shout, or anything. <br>
Instead, Collie said: 'We're losing the light.'<br>
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===Sonstiges===
Durch die Kürzungen fallen auch einige der [[Regulator/Charaktere|Charaktere]] in der Audiobuch-Fassung unter den Tisch, so etwa [[Roxanne Calabrese]].