Dispatch from a Colored Room by Matt Weber

Author:Matt Weber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fantasy, literary science fiction, dystopian fiction, postapocalyptic science fiction, mythopoeic, biological science fiction, matt weber, the dandelion knight

"He never made that visit," Aimée says, when she finishes reading through the letters. "How did he die, Pel? And when?”

"He disappeared," I say. "The last time his papers were shown was in Old Port Station, near Jesson Desrosiers' last known location. He left a will with an attorney, so when he had been missing for three months, the directive was clear enough: At that point the assets reverted to you and Ciel. That's when Duskstreet stepped in."

"So he could still be alive?"

Aimée speaks the words strangely, and it takes me a moment to understand how and why. "Aimée," I say, "you don't have to pretend you want to see him. You don't have a single memory of him that isn't from a heliotype."

She looks at me strangely. "How would you know?" she says. "Maybe he did visit me once. He was good at avoiding the law, it seems; perhaps he saw me and I never told anyone until now."

"Desrosiers is gone too," I say. "It's in the police report. They found his body with its head bashed in, months later. He was living in a ditch, Aimée, just desperate. Amazing quantities of substances in his bloodstream, a sack of cash buried nearby that no one could account for. Your father's blood on his clothes.” I draw a deep breath for what I’m about to say. “Remember that first letter. ‘Disencumber you of my failing flesh.’ Your father was suicidal, Aimée. He fled Jesson for a reason, did he not? Back when he joined Greyking. I think he may have come back for a reason too—”

She won't talk to me for hours after that. Days, maybe.

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