title: The new up-to-date English-Japanese conversation-dictionary: Entirely reset and greatly enlarged
author: Oreste Vaccari
description: Softcover and dust jacket: 534 pages. Language: English/Japanese ASIN: B0007J17OC Printed in Japan
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  The mindline had gone blank. Not as if it had been cut... but an imitation,
  complete with soft hissing white noise... the background noise of the
  universe, as imagined by another mind.
  
  
  Vasiht'h looked up from the hot chocolate he was making in their abbreviated
  kitchen. When the mindline didn't swell back to its normal state, he poked his
  head out the door, feathered ears flaring. "Jahir? Is something wrong?"
  
  
  His Eldritch partner was seated in front of their comm screen, which had gone
  dark. He was breathing: Vasiht'h could just see the lift of broad shoulders
  against the fine white hair that fell past them to the man's ribs. But
  otherwise, he was so still he might as well have been a statue. Vasiht'h tried
  again. "Jahir?"
  
  
  "Oh, mm? Sorry." The Eldritch twisted a little in his seat to face him. "I
  didn't hear you."
  
  
  "Apparently," Vasiht'h said, 