<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">"No."  Tony looked down at his phone.  "And I'm not happy about it either.  Duck and Palmer both being out of touch makes me twitchy.  What if --"  He bit down on the words.<br/>
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"It's okay," Jack urged.  He pulled a brownie out of the bag and offered it to Tony.  "Saying the bad stuff doesn't make it come true.  Dad <i>and</i> Papa both promised."<br/>
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Tony took the brownie with a small, weak smile.  "What if something happened to the Duckman, and Palmer's with him?" he asked in a small voice.  Ducky wasn't a young man, a fact that they all regularly tried not to think about.</span></span>