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Ah, that’s where the irritation coo there, Marcus,’ I warn, watching hiton

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, h the door, the , or the chimney We also know that he could not have been concealed in the room, as there is no concealment possible When, then, did he con of the Four (1980)

MyCentral Park in an aparts are twenty-three feet high, the s are ceiling to floor, and the endless views are quite literally breathtaking Darkness has already fallen and the city lies a glitzy carpet of lights below ht and feel crue tea flavored with honey and warras and bacon curls By the tiant entrance, I have already been cooling my heels for fifteen minutes I turn around to watch her sweep dramatically into the room, porcelain white, blonde and flawless, and reowns and hat you would call an all-star beauty As she wore coatsin the pit oflong?’

My uidly onto a sofa, and after dutifully kissing either side of her smooth and perfuers delicately into a half fist and lifts it to her ned to disguise the predatory gleam in her eyes

‘There is a Byzantine church in Syria, called The Heart of the Aline such a name for a church’

‘Did Marcus call you?’

‘What do you think?’

‘Well, are you going to tellto discuss obscure churches in Syria?’

She thinks for a moment, her eyes secretive slits of blue ‘Have you ever drea red eyes?’

I am unprepared for the question If I had, my reaction would have been totally different I would have schooled uarded expression of shock Even though I shake littering with excitement

‘You have, haven’t you?’

Why she would be pleased about such dreahtmares Since I was a boy I have been trapped in drea chased by a h open fields, I can hear it snorting and breathing hard on my heels Sometimes I will make it into an abandoned house or barn and I will lock myself in there and cohile the horse thunders its hooves at the door Petrified, I will stare at the door as it rattles and shakes That is usually when I wake up in a cold sweat

‘Do you kno lucky you are?’

Lucky? I aoal To allow the master to inhabit our souls Your father allowed it’ Her eyes beco out of his eyes He would look out at you, alive and living, in a hu we do for Him We allow him to walk the earth in human form It is e keep our bloodline pure If we sully it by er be able to possess us It is the reason we have all this power It is our reward Ulties, beco ‘You don’t knohat it feels like You must allow him to take you over’