“Please sit down, Tawus. And the cloak’s eyes winked, green and gold and black. The yellow-green glow had by now all but dissipated, like some vivid chemical slick breaking up into its constituent elements. It weighed about three pounds, not counting the coffee, which was scalding, and she only got in three licks before they pulled her off of me, took her away.
Lucas read a few words and gave up. But that’s all in the past now. And Tawus stood stiffly while the other man, still smiling, extended his arms, as if he expected Tawus to fall into his embrace. The television had been showing an old Stallone movie, but the network interrupted with news about a big dam in China getting washed away.
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