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And the ones who had done it to Willem were sorry, so sorry, and she rose and said to them, It's all right, go now and do not do this again if you can help it, though she knew that they could not. They could not help it because of the Twelve who filled their minds with their terrible dreams of blood and no answer to the question but this

She thought: there is the ground below my feet, there is the sky over my head, there are the empty buildings and the wind and rain and stars and everywhere the voices, the voices and the question.

Peter closed the book and put it aside. He had no idea what to make of any of it, but that was the way of most things from the Time Before. How did people live? What did they eat, wear, think? Did they walk in the dark, as if this were nothing?

The one who'd told him he'd be feeling better soon: he wasn't wrong, after all. Anthony Carter had never felt better in his life.