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Oh, so warm, yes He would slip into unconsciousness if he didn't hold tight They were racing silently along the freeway now, out of Chicago, the rain flooding the s, locked together in this warm, velvet-lined little place Ah, such lovely silver rain And Ar to soe of speech

I'm with you, safe with you

"No, Daniel, not safe," he answered "Maybe not even for a night or so much as an hour "

Daniel tried to think, to form a question, but he was too weak, too drowsy The car was so co And the twins The beautiful red-haired tanted in now! His eyes closed for a split second and he sank against Ar Armand's hand on his back

Far away he heard Armand's voice: "What do I do with you, my beloved? Especially nohen I myself am so afraid "

Darkness again He held fast to the taste of the brandy in his mouth, to the touch of Ar

The talking in the desert; the sun was high above It burned their white arms, their faces Their lips were swollen and cracked from thirst Their dresses were stained with blood

"Make the rain fall," Daniel whispered aloud, "you can do it, make the rain fall " One of the twins fell down on her knees, and her sister knelt and put her arms around her Red hair and red hair

Soain Armand said that they were too deep in the desert Not even their spirits could make rain in such a place

But why? Couldn't spirits do anything? "He felt Arain

The twins have now entered a low mountain pass But there is no shade because the sun is directly above them, and the rocky slopes are too treacherous for them to climb On they walk Can't someone help them? They stumble and fall every few steps now The rocks look too hot to touch Finally one of them falls face down in the sand, and the other lies over her, sheltering her with her hair

Oh, if only evening would come, with its cold winds

Suddenly the tho is protecting her sister looks up Moveain A rock falls, echoes with a soft clear shuffling sound And then Daniel sees theover the precipices, desert people as they have looked for thousands of years with their dark skin and heavy white robes

The twins rise on their knees together as these m

en approach The men offer them water They pour the cool water over the twins Suddenly the twins are laughing and talking hysterically, so great is their relief, but the estures, so purely eloquent, as one twin points to the belly of her sister, and then folding her ar a child Ah, yes The ether towards the oasis, round which their tents stand