part two and three

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I don’t get much from them, but I’m pretty sure that’s because they notice we watching the watchthings and they see me counting how many there are and where exactly they look. It’s not like i do anything with the information, except figure where i can stand and not be watched. It’s hard to be perfect all the time, so I find the places where I don’t have to be and can get away with it because  it’s dangerous to deviate while in their eyes. Every so often people disappear, and everybody knows what happened, but it’s just like the watchthings. We don’t talk about it.

I turned onto a small side street. It’s one I’ve been on before so I don’t need to count to know there are sixteen watchthings from the start of the road to the end. I still do a turn to make sure they’re all i the same places as last time though. It’s surprising that there’s so few of them on this street, being as long as it is. They’re the thinnest spread i’ve ever seen. It’s also pretty clear they don’t pay much attention to this road because there are also 13 places where the watchthings don’t have eyes.

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