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Slowly she started to rise Never taking her eyes offonly slightly I watched in astonishher, her cloak ruffled as if by a faint breeze She passed through the opening and then stood on the very edge
Hundreds of feet! Not possible for me to do this - -
"Co in the emptiness "Do
as you have already done Do it quickly, and as hter
Suppose I got a fifth of the way up-a good leap, the height, say, of a four-story building, which was rather easy for me but also the limit of- Dizziness Not possible Disorientation How had we coain I saw her but it was drea I didn't want to lose this moment I wanted to remain connected with time in a series of linked moments, to understand this on my terms
"Lestat!" she whispered "Now " Such a tender thing, her sesture to me to be quick
I did what I had done before; I looked at her and decided that I should instantly be at her side
The hurricane again, the air bruising ht the resistance I think I saw the hole in the broken boards as I passed through it Then I was standing there, shaken, terrified I would fall
It sounded as if I were laughing; but I think I was just goingactually "But how?" I said "I have to kno I did it "
"You know the answer," she said "The intangible thing which anith now than it did before It moved you as it has always ht, it is siree "
"I want to try it again," I said
She laughed very softly, but spontaneously, "Look about this room," she said "Do you remember it?"
I nodded "When I was a young man, I came here all the time," I said I moved away from her I saw piles of ruined furniture- the heavy benches and stools that had once filled our castle,it was damn near indestructible, like the trees that fall in the forest and rees over streas had not rotted away Even old caskets relory And in the dust I saw a faint bit of color Tapestries, but they were utterly destroyed
In the revolution, these thingsand then the stairs had fallen away
I went to one of the tiny narros and I looked out on the land Far below, nestled in the hts of a little city, sparse, yet there A car made its way down the narrow road Ah, the host of itself