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The ray gun, retrieved from lost and found, is in Ingress' hand. Actually, it's still in Ingress-as-Mary's hand. They are in Ingress' room, tucked away from the adults in the House.

"Okay. We try this, and if it doesn't work, then we'll tell Tom, and he'll figure out how to get us back."

Please work, please work, please work, she thinks.

"Ready?"

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"I think I'm not used to wearing your kind of clothes. Everything felt tight and pinchy."

She is sooooo glad to be in her own clothes again.

"But maybe you are growing. You're quite tall already."

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"Yes," Mary says, with pleased serenity. "That is something I am glad to be again, as well."

Kindly: "But I am sure you shall grow more, as well."

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"Who knows? Maybe one day I'll be even taller than you!"

[mistressmaryquitecontrary]

"- oh, I do not think that is likely," Mary says, rather quellingly.

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Ingress laughs until the bruise on her ribs pains her.

"We'll see."

Maybe she'll try and get taller just to show Mary's wrong!

No, Ingress isn't like that.

"Hey, I want to go see Megwyn. She'll be so relieved. Not that she doesn't like you. She does."

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"You needn't worry," Mary says, with something that might be very slight amusement. "I should not be pleased to find you had been replaced with someone like me, either."

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"You know," says Ingress, quite seriously. "I would have been scared about being switched with anyone else. It wasn't scary to be switched with you. I knew we'd be okay."