She flailed against the
doctor’s grip but after what seemed an eternity of kicking
and flailing, amazingly, he had not seemed weakened in
the slightest by her resistance. To her horror she
realized that she had nearly forgotten how to kiss after a
years-long dry spell, and she could detect drool on her
own chin and John’s cheek. But in between these wider phases of comparative confidence were
gaps of disconcerting doubt, when the universe was presented as making sinister
and threatening faces at her, defying her to defy, preparing a humiliating and
shameful overthrow. Her aunt had summoned up an altogether too vivid picture of her father as the
masterful man, overbearing, emphatic, sentimental, noisy, aimless. Did he
track her? She was unaware if he did. It towered up high
above the level of the pass, thousands of feet, still, shining, and white, and
below, thousands of feet below, was a floor of little woolly clouds. “Why just take her limbs? Why not poison her, like
me?”
“Because, if you remember, she turned me into a
vampire. ”
“You’ll never pay me. A crowd
was collected round the fellow, who was rapidly disposing of his stock. ’
‘I thank you,’ Gerald said drily. So strongly was he impressed with this idea, that grasping the iron bar with both
hands, he dashed it furiously against the door, making the passage echo with the
blows. He was draining a glass, and as he set it down he shuddered. Who
could guarantee a safer existence outside Florence?
That Sebastian seemed to have a weird immunity to
the Pestilence was a trait that went unquestioned,
unanswered.
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