The Savior by Eugene Drucker

Author:Eugene Drucker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2007-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

That evening, in the silence of his room, the thoughts that had been unleashed during the Ysaÿe kept swirling through his head. If he left himself open to that moaning, if he let that swaying and creaking mesmerize him, he might become…like them. Yes, he could already see himself in a gray sack, head shaved, eyes staring. Why not? The Kommandant could keep him there, behind barbed wire, a gray-clad raving witness with no one to listen.

But no, he wouldn’t become one of them. He had certain rights, after all. It was not for nothing that he had this room to himself, that in the concert hall they were a blurred mass in the shadows and he, removed from them by a few paces, received whatever light was to be had in that dark world.

He would keep himself separate.

But the woman’s voice kept coming back to him: Please stay with us. He had to find that woman and talk to her.

Occasionally he heard footsteps not far from his window. A guard must have been pacing the perimeter of the camp. As the footsteps receded, everything grew quiet; in the stillness he could hear his heartbeat resounding in his skull, and there was a ringing in his ears like the hiss of steam escaping from a boiler, a piercing din that kept him awake half the night.

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