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I saw you after the Book had There’s no question you did it

The others I killed?

He shook his head I wasn’t there I did, however, see a few disturbing things on the way to the White Mansion I terminated each of the to my eyes He’d cleaned up afterI’d wanted desperately to find those terrible things the Book had shown me: the inside out twins, the castrated man, the child, but I’d realized it had been thirty-five days, and although they surely lingered in agony, it had likely been a matter of hours or days and it was far too late forBeen the h the tears, wondering if this hat he had s about whatever you’d done that was unforgivable got polished into mercy"

Mercy from a beast likebut I kneas true

The silence stretched, then he lightly touched his hands to my temples and drew my head into the hollow of his neck

Suddenly I was in another place and tiBarrons toss his son up onto a horse The beautiful little boy laughed with excitement as his father stared impatiently up

I made him come with me that day because I was in a hurry I didn’t want to waste the few minutes it would have taken to return him to his mother There was no reason to hurry Those few minutes cost him his entire life, conde that ate atyou with the stones was that it appeared my choices were: don’t do it and let you destroy the world; do it and lock you away in Culsan’s chaot destroyed by the black holes anyway, leaving you to suffer there forever because I would be gone and unable to come back and free you; or kill you so you would never suffer my son’s fate I can’t tell you if it appeared the world would end, I’d not have done the latter

"Thank you," I said siravely

"Was I horrific when the Book was in possession of me?"

"No worse than many humans I’ve known Where the corporeal Book was a vast, philosophical, brilliant homicidal maniac with enormous power of illusion, the one within you seeotistical psychopath Cruce postulated that the Book didn’t copy itself, it had to split, thereby lost many of its parts in the process I suspect the twenty-soed it further Its tiible experience it had ever had, connected to your senses"

"You think I huree"

"Did you knoas in there?"