“Then it was just a coincidence you were there when it hap- pened?”

“Your buddy Guitar. Ask him what strange stuff been hap- penin. Ask him how come he runnin round with Empire State all of a sudden.”

They are hap- pining so slow you cant tell.

It haps incredibly fast, and Amazon is touting the fact that Firefly can recognize 100 million items “anytime, anywhere, in one second.”

As if her presence legitimized whatever was hap­pening between us—though certainly not to the same degree that the general’s would have.