Subject: Re: Private -9

From: "Cassie Lund" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:47:34 -0800

Snapped or entirely gone. "And I only have one of those,he said, and began to laugh wildly in the empty room in front of the hateful Royal with its gap-toothed grin.

Neither said anything for a time. When he came back to his former state of semi-consciousness, he was able to make the connection between the piling and his current situation — it seemed to float into his hand. "Colters words were muffled in the handkerchief, but Geoffrey could see his eyes; the man was really, honestly weeping.
Overlying even all this was a picture, which grew clearer and clearer (as if a giant slide had been projected against the cloud in which he lay) as time passed.

The irony was that the woman had coerced him into writing what was easily the best of the "Miserynovels. It kept recurring at odd moments.

"She smiled mistily — the smile of a woman who sees a lovely castle in the sky — and then the smile disappeared and she was all business again. "Ian then had burst into tears again, and after muttering some half-heard word of condolence, Shinny had passed into the parlor.