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Then Father said, "I iine so, Cilinia" Fro he would ever say to her I wish I kne to do that with ht

Father had gotten a lot solider-looking when the light got bright I do not know aboutot all wispy

After that, she went It was like she ater in a bowl, and the dirt in the lead casket was the ground, and soht was

When she was gone, Father closed his hand again The boy wanted to know if he should put the lid back Father said yes, and, "I can't say whatStill, I advise you not to"

The boy said he would not He screwed the lid back dohich did not take nearly as long as it had to get it off, and we shoved it back in the corner again

When it was done, the bird said, "Bad thing Bad girl" You could tell it was not quite sure she was gone

I thought that was funny and said so about it to Father, and he said, "Nor am I Back on Blue, she may possess Oreb just as she did; and in fact, I think it "

After that ent back outside It was practically night, what old people call shadelow, the ti rosebush growing right by the door of the stone building with about a hundred purple roses on it I had not noticed the smell e came in, or anyway I do not think I did But ent out I noticed it a lot The night see it out, and it was alot it on our clothes It eet but heavy, the kind of smell you like at first, but after a little while itlike that I think about the girl, and the dirt that was inside the lead box She was right at the et in, but she would probably have gotten over it when she got older She ht have turned out to be a pretty nice person after all

While alking, the boy told Father he wanted hi He said he had wanted to show it to hiotten to see it, so could he show hi about ere doing now instead of the girl and whether she had really gone away I mean died, because that is what it was, I know So I asked if ere just going back to the tower to see this dog, and I said that if that was all it was o home

Father said, "We've accomplished the task we set out to do, but the most difficult part of our trip reanu to return with us"

I wanted to say, "Don't you think Juganu ant to go?" but that would have been dumb because I could see from what he had said that he did not So I said, "You told him ould happen if he didn't"

Father did not say anything If you asked him a question that really was a question he just about always answered some way, I think because he was so polite But if you just said so, pretty often he did not say anything back By that time I knew all about that so I did not do it very often anymore

The boy said, "Do you want to look for your friend first, or see Triskele?"

"Both," Father told hiot to the little gate Then the boy knocked and called out, "We are returning, Brother Porter!"

That was the torturer at the gate, a big fat h the little , and it was the first tih to me that I should have had a black robe and a sword too, like Father had helped Juganuat me, and it was probably a , and the robe was really just kind of a black sheet tied around my neck, and I still had on the tunic that Mother had ate for us anyway, but he was tre so bad that Father stayed behind to talk to hiht

The boy and I went on Father ht to, and I think that was right, because the boy helped me with my robe and I found out I could ether and running theo away, too, but it would not, so the boy showed ether and keep it that way, the way a real torturer would We went back in the tower after that and down into the Juzgado part, because I had asked the boy if there omen torturers, and he said no So I was pretty sure that here Juganu would be I thought o back, and that would save a little ti was

Pretty soon we heard Juganu's voice It was noisy down there, with so all the time But in a way it was quiet, too, because nobody was listening When soanu did, just the way a person usually does so that somebody else will hear him and understand what he said, it sort of stood out We went to the rooh a littlepretty ate, and he was in there with a nicelooking wo eyes that looked like they cried a lot, only she did not look like she was going to cry any more ever just then, if you knohat I mean She looked like life was just so wonderful there in her little roo could ever ain She looked up at me when I tapped on the door withat anything else was just a big waste of tione out to the cemetery that they called the necropolis, Father and I had just walked though the wall, the bird and the girl flew over, and the boy had cli it would probably have been better if we had cootten the fat ht then I tried to see if I could just walk through that door, too, without Father there to tell me how I tried, and I did it It worked fine

There was so in there just the sa about what if it did not work fine when I tried to go out? What if it did not work at all? I thought about being locked in there like the woht, and what did Father need me here for anyway? He could have left me on the boat with Babbie When I told the others about that, we all laughed But it was not funny then It was hard to keep fros I have ever done

Juganu wanted to knohat I wanted, but I think he knew I said it was tio, and she cried and held on to hi to leave thisand said that ould just go down and look at it because the boy wanted us to, and Father would be along soon to see it, and then ere leaving

He did not say anything to that for a minute Then he said, "I have to think"