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A violent shock passed throughto the floor I couldn't controldown the fractured glass wall, the shards still falling around it Blood strealass behind her And the woman held Akasha's severed head by the hair!
Akasha's black eyes blinked, widened Her ain
And then the light was going out all around uished, only it hadn't, and as I rolled over on the carpet, crying,at it involuntarily, I saw the distant flah a dark rosy haze
I tried to lifttoonly my name
Then I was rising, just a little, and allarms and hands
Akasha's eyes were fixed onthere alushing froht arm quivered; it was lifted, then it flopped back down to the floor Then it rose again, the hand dangling It was reaching for the head!
I could help it! I could use the powers she'd given me to try to led to see in the diht, the body lurched, shivered, and flopped down closer to the head
But the twins! They were beside the head and the body Mekare, staring at the head dully, with those vacant red-rimmed eyes And Maharet, as if with the last breath in her, kneeling now beside her sister, over the body of the Mother, as the roorow pale and ghostly white as if all the light inside were going out
I should have been afraid; I should have been in terror; the cold was creeping over est elation overca:
"It's the dream," I said Far away I could hear my own voice "The twins and the body of the Mother, do you see it! The ie from the dream!"
Blood spread out from Akasha's head into the weave of the carpet; Maharet was sinking down, her hands out flat, and Mekare too had weakened and bent down over the body, but it was still the sae, and I knehy I'd seen it now, I knehat it meant!
"The funeral feast!" Marius cried "The heart and the brain, one of you-take them into yourself It is the only chance "
Yes, that was it And they knew! No one had to tell them They knew!
That was the ! And they'd all seen it, and they all knew Even asdeepened, this sense of co known!
Then I was floating, floating in the ice cold darkness again as if I were in Akasha's ar into the stars