Tanith Lee - Paradys 4 by The Book of the Mad

Author:The Book of the Mad [Mad, The Book of the]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-12-12T02:16:43+00:00

All afternoon, no one had visited. Nor at five o’clock, the usual time.

Leocadia went down into the garden.

No one was there, either.

The summerhouse and flower bed, empty. A pigeon flew away from the Medusa’s head at Leocadia’s approach.

The lawns and walk were vacant, and across the grass, through the trees, the buildings of the madhouse were like old rocks in a desert.

Penguin Gin, Leocadia thought, Penguin Gin. Drink it up, it will—

Leocadia could not recall, out in the garden, where she had left the antique bottle with its square neck and top, its label of ice floes and bird.

She felt almost afrighted, a kind of pang.

Leocadia made herself move slowly back toward the Residence—someone might be watching.

When she gained her room, the bottle was standing on her worktable. Had she put it there? Had it been there all the time?

Leocadia picked up the bottle and examined it, an archaeologist with a flask of Egyptian pottery, some tiny god incised upon it.

Drink it up, it will—

Maddening, a rhyme that did not conclude.

Maddening.

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