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sisalik"We'll do what we can," said the Sheep Man. "Though - we're getting on in years. Hope we still got the stuff in us, heh heh. We'll try, but no guarantees, no promises you're gonna be - happy." He picked at a snag in his fleece and searched for words. "We just can't say. In that other world, might not be any-place anymore, not anywhere for you. You're starting to look - pretty fixed, maybe too fixed to pry loose. You're not so young - anymore, either, yourself."
"So where does that leave me?"
"You lost lots of things. Lost lots of precious things. Not any-body's fault. But each time you lost something, you dropped a - whole string of things with it. Now why? Why'd you have to go - and do that?"
"I don't know."
"Hard to do different. Your fate, or something like fate. Tendencies."
"Tendencies?"
"Tendencies. You got tendencies. So even if you did every-thing over again, your whole life, you got tendencies to do just - what you did, all over again."
"Yes, but where does that leave me?"
"Like we said, we'll do what we can. Try to reconnect you, to what you want," said the Sheep Man. "But we can't do it alone. You gotta work too. Sitting's not gonna do it, thinking's - not gonna do it."
"So what do I have to do?"
"Dance," said the Sheep Man. "You gotta dance. As long - as the music plays. You gotta dance. Don't even think why. Start - to think, your feet stop. Your feet stop, we get stuck. We get stuck, you're stuck. So don't pay any mind, no matter how dumb. You - gotta keep the step. You gotta limber up. You gotta loosen what - you bolted down. You gotta use all you got. We know you're tired, tired and scared. Happens to everyone, okay? Just don't - let your feet stop."
"So where does that leave me?"
"You lost lots of things. Lost lots of precious things. Not any-body's fault. But each time you lost something, you dropped a - whole string of things with it. Now why? Why'd you have to go - and do that?"
"I don't know."
"Hard to do different. Your fate, or something like fate. Tendencies."
"Tendencies?"
"Tendencies. You got tendencies. So even if you did every-thing over again, your whole life, you got tendencies to do just - what you did, all over again."
"Yes, but where does that leave me?"
"Like we said, we'll do what we can. Try to reconnect you, to what you want," said the Sheep Man. "But we can't do it alone. You gotta work too. Sitting's not gonna do it, thinking's - not gonna do it."
"So what do I have to do?"
"Dance," said the Sheep Man. "You gotta dance. As long - as the music plays. You gotta dance. Don't even think why. Start - to think, your feet stop. Your feet stop, we get stuck. We get stuck, you're stuck. So don't pay any mind, no matter how dumb. You - gotta keep the step. You gotta limber up. You gotta loosen what - you bolted down. You gotta use all you got. We know you're tired, tired and scared. Happens to everyone, okay? Just don't - let your feet stop."
