Book of Dreams by Neil Gaiman

Author:Neil Gaiman [Gaiman, Neil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-08-09T03:18:54+00:00

He reached out for more, and—and there weren't any. Oh, the swarm of bees was still there, thick as ever, but he couldn't reach them. And then someone parted them—

parted them just like a curtain!—and stuck her head out, and glared at him with eyes of two different colors, neither of which he could name. A girl—no, a woman—no, a girl.

With a shock of red hair. No—she was piebald. No— she was—well, it was hard to say; even as he looked at her, she was receding, falling away.

" wHAt's goJNg oN? " she asked. She sounded like a radio not quite tuned in to a station. " We wEre HAviNG So mUCHfuN! "

And someone from Darren's right— and his left— answered, in a voice like amber.

He is but passing from your realm, to mine. That is all, my sister.

" oH," said the girl-woman-girl, " i fOrGOT t/zAT SOmeTWes hAPPens."

And will happen again, alas, added the newcomer, just AN EXTRA SMIDGEN OF ETERNITY 2O3 as the girl-woman-girl fell out of sight. He is to be my own guest but briefly.

Barren closed his eyes, then, and found him: a tall, thin, emaciated man wrapped in black—looking just enough like Daniel Day Lewis to get Darren's heart gallumphing in his breast.

The stranger put his pale face close to Darren's, and Darren waited to feel his breath, but he felt no breath. Little man, the stranger said softly, One foot in your own kingdom, another in mine, and ever resisting the inevitable pull of the next. What a dogged creature you are!

And his face moved closer, and closer still, and then even closer, until it seemed to wash right over Darren, like a wave of milk, and then he was in his hospital room again, and Wanda was there by the bed, looking at him with great intensity, her hand clasped over her mouth.

"Darren?" she said.

He sat up. "I'm all right. It was just a bad spell. Finish the story. Who was Cary?"

She leaned toward him and lay a hand on his leg. "Darren?" She shook him.

" Darren."

"Right here," he said, growing a little annoyed. "Finish the goddamn story, okay?"

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