ence that for now they—the ones who had effected the meeting-weregone, invisible, out of phase no more a part of the life generated His pupils had spread like black pools, and the thin line of color that chased round them was a pale true green. Beth saw every detail with utter clarity, as though magnified a thousand powerunder a microscope, solarized as if it had been a television commercial. I wanted to say kiss and make up, but I knew they wouldn't.
I held out my hand towards Gordon Bennington's face. He almost smiled. I knew when I'd walked the entire circle around the headstone, because the moment I touched the place where I'd begun, the circle closed with a skin-tingling, hair-raising rush. I got a death grip on the edge of the tub with my glove-covered hands, and when I had both my feet planted as steady as I could get them, I looked down at the water.
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