The provided text consists of extensive excerpts from the novel Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls by Jane Lindskold, identified in the concluding pages as a work of fiction copyrighted in 1994. The narrative follows a protagonist named Sarah, an institutionalized woman who can communicate with inanimate objects and two rubber dragons named Betwixt and Between, as she is discharged from a facility and finds refuge with a group of homeless individuals known as the Free People in a makeshift community called the Jungle. The excerpts chronicle Sarah's adoption into this community by the resourceful hacker Abalone and her former teacher Professor Isabella, detailing their illicit activities, including grand theft auto facilitated by Abalone’s digital skills and Sarah's emerging mental abilities.

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