Lana peeked around him into the other room -- dark, and a warm breeze was coming out of it. After last night's adventures in heating, there'd been a very good reason she'd nudged the thermostat down in the other room, and not up. She'd never been in real danger, not with the teleport ring available (it was on her hand, tonight, not even buried in a pocket), but it hadn't been pleasant.

She turned the other handle, and stepped out into, as expected, a hallway.

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