She tried to smile and slip past, murmuring, Excuse me, I just have to— He caught hold of her arm. Then give the blade to me! He stretched out his hand, but as he did so the doppelgänger turned its head and pinned David with its blank gaze. In seducing you my instinct was trying to override a conscious decision. You cannot let the patterns of your childhood poison your whole life.
And suddenly he said very softly, David, if I were you I should leave here now. Strange… but I never envisioned outliving Kristian. It was enough to know that the dark wings of flight were no longer broken. The portrait was more an icon than a real memory; she seemed so far away, this slender, stately woman in Edwardian clothes.
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