Laurie R. King_Kate Martinelli 04 by Night Work

Author:Night Work [Work, Night]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9780553578256
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2000-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

the narrators sang.

They hit me.

They hurt me.

They stripped me.

The guards.

Over and over the last four lines were chanted, faster and faster. The guards sprouted gray and black and khaki veils, and Beloved sank down beneath a swirl of obscuring darkness; one slim blue arm emerged in protest from the huddle, and was overcome. One by one the guards detached themselves and stormed offstage, boots beating on the floorboards, leaving behind them a half-nude figure, heaped up beneath a drift of drab cloth.

After a while, a stir came from the wings, and in washed a flock of five giggling girls wearing the brightest of colors who emerged startlingly, almost painfully from the dark. The abused figure pushed laboriously upright, and made an effort to rearrange hair, pull together clothing, and pluck away the gray and khaki shrouds. The girls came up, laughing and teasing, to inquire where Lover had gone; Beloved asked them, in a hoarse, faltering voice, if they would help look for Lover. Completely oblivious of their friend's suffering, the five colorful figures danced and primped and gossiped about Lover's charms, speculating teasingly about where Lover might have gone, and with whom. Desperately, Beloved reached up to seize an apricot-colored skirt, and cried out:

I beg you, girls of Jerusalem,

If you find my love,

What will you tell him?

Tell him …

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