Barker, Clive - Books of Blood 06 by Barker Clive

Author:Barker, Clive [Barker, Clive]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-06-11T16:51:55+00:00

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‘Perhaps I’ll see you again,’ she said. ‘Sometime.’

‘I’m sure,’ he replied, gratefully taking his cue and retreating along the street. ‘And to your friends - my best regards.’

Even if she wanted to pass Kavanagh’s good wishes along to Reuben and Sonja, she could not have done so. Hermione did not answer the telephone, nor did any of the others. The closest she came was to leave a message with Reuben’s answering service.

The light-headedness she’d felt earlier in the day developed into a strange dreaminess as the afternoon inched towards evening. She ate again, but the feast did nothing to keep the fugue-state from deepening. She felt quite well; that sense of inviolability that had came upon her was still intact. But time and again as the day wore on she found herself standing on the threshold of a room not knowing why she had come there; or watching the light dwindle in the street outside without being quite certain if she was the viewer or the thing viewed. She was happy with her company though, as the flies were happy. They kept buzzing attendance even though the dark fell.

About seven in the evening she heard a car draw up outside, and the bell rang. She went to the door of her flat, but couldn’t muster the inquisitiveness to open it, step out into the hallway and admit callers. It would be Hermione again, most probably, and she didn’t have any appetite for gloomy talk. Didn’t want anybody’s company in fact, but that of the flies.

The callers insisted on the bell; the more they insisted the more determined she became not to reply. She slid down the wall beside the flat door and listened to the muted debate that now began on the step. It wasn’t Hermione; it was nobody she recognized. Now they systematically rang the bells of the flats above, until

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