Books of Blood 6 by Clive Barker

Author:Clive Barker [Barker, Clive]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2002-12-02T16:00:00+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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