Sandford, John - Kidd 02 - The Empress File by Sandford John

Author:Sandford, John
Language: eng
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"Does the image strike you as particularly strong this

morning? Did the image catch your eye, rather than the philosophical position behind the card?"

"Wel …"

"There are times when you must look at the image. You know, the tarot speaks on a lot of different levels. Sometimes it's on a mystical level that seems far beyond anything I can interpret," I babbled. She was listening intently. "On other occasions it's as simple as the picture printed on the card."

"It did seem sort of special…"

Of course it did, with my implicit prompting.

"I don't know what it might mean, though," I said, putting new doubt into my voice. "A dark knight, a black knight, arriving on a white horse. That hardly seems to fit modern times -

especial y coupled with the wealth cards we see everywhere else. I don't know."

Jesus, I thought, am I overdoing it? Behind Dessusdelit, LuEl en was biting her lip.

I picked up the Death card and placed it in front of Dessusdelit. The room had grown tense, and Dessusdelit sat frozen for a moment, studying Death. Then, with a sudden release of breath, she pushed her chair back and stood up.

release of breath, she pushed her chair back and stood up.

Her eyes were wide and distant, as though she were stoned.

"Let's get some light in here," LuEl en said suddenly. She pul ed a shade, and daylight cut through the gloom. "Boy, I've never seen anything like this." She looked down at her hand.

"The crystal has stopped."

Dessusdelit leaned over and peered at it, nodded.

"I need a drink," I said. "Miz Dessusdelit?"

"No, no, thank you. I think I need to go home and lie down…"

She looked one last time at the dark knight on the white horse. When she was gone, LuEl en looked at me and grinned.

"That was strong," she said.

"Yeah. I hope I don't get in trouble with the tarot gods for fuckin' with the cards."

She frowned, and I grinned at her. "No sweat. Let's get out on the river."

The animal control compound was three-quarters of a mile south of the marina, at the far end of the town's smal industrial district. Going downriver, we passed the tal white

cylinders of a grain elevator with a barge dock, a series of warehouses surrounded by chain-link fences, a lumberyard, and then a stretch of empty riverbank, overgrown with brush.

The animal control complex was the last sign of life before the river turned and slid out of sight. From the water we could just see the tops of the buildings. A couple of dogs were yapping, but there was no other sound except the boat motor and the water cutting around the bow.

"Goddamn it," I said. "I thought we could see in there."

"Why don't we go on down, tie off, and climb that little hil ?"

LuEl en asked, pointing across the water. A short, steep hil poked up just beyond the corrugated metal roofs. "We could take the glasses up with us, and we'd be looking right down on it."

"Al right. Let's see if we can find a place to tie off," I said.

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