So he would be brave and die well, and then what? They are what is the word your Arabs use? - djinnsl' He looked about the gathered council and saw no one who would support him.īe brave, boy. It was only a question of a few minutes before he came back down to earth. Loren knew him well enough to flow with the current. Pitt sat silent and was still lost in thought when the Washington monument came into view, illuminated by the lights at its base. Loren pulled away from the curb and steered the Ford onto the broad highway leading into the city.

I stood at the dark glass windows of the high-rise apartment, looking out over the deep snows of Fifth Avenue, waiting and praying with her, wishing the great Earth were not so empty of my old enemy and thinking in my foolish heart that in time this mystery of his disappearance would be resolved, as were all miracles, with sadness and small losses, with no more than little revelations that would leave me as I had always been left since that long-ago night in Venice when my Master and I were divided forever, simply a little more clever at pretending that I was still alive.

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