I felt his eyes flash wide, felt him take that first gasping breath, felt life fill him. A sprinkling of blood on the pale brown carpet in the hallway. I was trying to flirt, and it worked. Anita, Jason said, and his voice held a note of anxiety.
(Of course I know her last name, you fool. And we passed through the country of the blind. But Asher was so obviously convinced of it that I didn't argue. The old fableabout the Country Mouse and the City Rat scuttled through my mind.
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