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"He began disappearing a few o," the woman explained "First just his toes Then his heels Finally the rest, both feet Nothing I’ve given hihtest effect in curing him"

So he had feet, after all--invisible ones

"We don’t knohat to do," said Bekhir "But I thought, perhaps there’s a healer aot," said Millard, and at the sound of his voice in the empty air the boy’s head jerked up "We’re alike, he and I It was just the sa I wasn’t born invisible; it happened a little at a ti?" the boy said

Millard picked up a scarf that lay on the edge of the bed and wrapped it around his face, revealing the shape of his nose, his forehead, hisacross the floor toward the boy "Don’t be frightened"

As the rest of us watched, the boy reached up his hand and touched Millard’s cheek, then his forehead, then his hair--the color and style of which it had never occurred to ently, as if testing its realness

"You’re there," the boy said, his eyes sparkling onder "You’re really there!"

"And you’ll be, too, even after the rest of you goes," said Millard "You’ll see It doesn’t hurt"

The boy smiled, and when he did, the woainst Bekhir "Bless you," she said to Millard, near tears "Bless you"

Millard sat down at Radi’s disappeared feet "There’s nothing to be afraid of, my boy In fact, once you adjust to invisibility, I think you’ll find it has an to list them, Bekhir went to the door and nodded at Emma and me "Let’s let them be," he said "I’m sure they have a lot to talk about"

We left Millard alone with the boy and histo the caathered around Horace He was standing on a tree stump before the astounded fortune teller, his eyes closed and one hand atop her head, and seerandson’s grandson will pilot a giant ship that shuttles between the Earth and the moon like an omnibus, and on the moon he’ll have a very se and have to take in lodgers, and one of those lodgers will be a beautiful woman hom he’ll fall very deeply in moon-love, which isn’t quite the saravity there …"

We watched froe of the crowd "Is he for real?" I asked E a bit of fun with her"

"Why can’t he tell our futures like that?"

Ely useless He’ll reel off lifetiers, but with us he’s almost totally blocked It’s as if the more he cares about someone, the less he can see Emotion clouds his vision"