Imajica Book 2 - The Reconciliation by Clive Barker

Author:Clive Barker [Barker, Clive]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061094156
Publisher: HarperTorch
Published: 1995-05-10T05:00:00+00:00

was quite safe. The pleasantries stopped here, however. He saw her unease and wanted to

know what was wrong.

“I went to Roxborough's tower,” she told him.

“Not on your own, I hope. Those people can't be trusted.”

“I took Oscar.”

“And how's Oscar?”

She was in no mood to prettify. “He's dead,” she said.

He looked genuinely saddened at this. “How did that happen?” he asked.

“It doesn't matter.”

“It does to me,” he insisted. “Please. I want to know.”

“Dowd was there. He killed Godolphin.”

“Did he hurt you?”

“No. He tried. But no.”

“You shouldn't have gone up there without me. What on earth possessed you?”

She told him, as plainly as she knew: “Roxborough had a prisoner,” she said. “A woman he

buried under the tower.”

“He kept that little kink to himself,” came the reply. She thought there was something

almost admiring in his tone, but she fought the temptation to accuse him. “So you went to

dig up her bones, did you?”

“I went to release her.”

Now she had every scrap of his attention. “I don't follow,” he said.

“She's not dead.”

“So she's not human.” He made a curt little smile. “What was Roxborough doing up there?

Raising wantons?”

“I don't know what wantons are.”

“They're ethereal whores.”

“That doesn't describe Celestine.” She trailed the bait of the name, but he failed to bite.

“She's human. Or at least she was.”

“And what is she now?”

Jude shrugged. “Something ... else. I don't quite know what. She's powerful, though. She

almost killed Dowd.”

“Why?”

“I think you're better off hearing that from her.”

“Why should I want to?” he said lightly.

“She asked to see you. She says she knows you.”

“Really? Did she say from where?”

“No. But she told me to mention Nisi Nirvana.”

He chuckled at this.

“Does it mean something to you?” Jude said.

“Yes, of course. It's a story for children. Don't you know it?”

“No.”

Even as she spoke, she realized why, but it was he who voiced the reason. ,

“Of course you don't,” he said. “You were never a child, were you?”

She studied his face, wishing she could be certain he meant to be cruel.

“So will you go to her?”

“Why should I? I don't know her.”

“But she knows you.”

“What is this?” he said. “Are you trying to palm me off on another woman?”

He took a step towards her, and though she tried to conceal her reluctance to be to uched,

she failed.

“Judith,” he said. “I swear I don't know this Celestine. It's you I think about when I'm not

here—”

“I don't want to discuss that now.”

“What do you suspect me of?” he said. “I've done nothing. I swear.” He laid both his hands

on his chest. “You're hurting me, Judith. I don't know if that's what you want to do, but you

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