Part 37 (2/2)

And even Lennox, it ca for the Dioscuri It was them They were on his e er of rock, when he secretly revealed to me what they were Lennox had called the Dioscuri mind readers Thissbut it was like the perspective had changed, like I was experiencing these visions anew, or for the first timeyes, for the first ti working for the Master House? The Lenoir couldn't possibly be in league with the Master House, could they?

One thing was certain The Lenoir didn't purge their nuot too old, they becareat secret One which could get me killed

But what did they drink, what did the Dioscuri feed upon?

I wanted to see what the Dioscuri knew

They were at ht into this world They must have seen what had happened to h them I had to know, to look inside of theerous

Certain questions should not be asked, I tolduntouchable, what do they fear? And, as they cannot touch, their only resource forus, is us The Dioscuri lie”

The total omniscience of the Dioscuri terrified me But that still didn't explain what equivocation was

”Using distortion to arrange so desirable to the Dioscuri, which can only be fatal to us,” said Lux, ”often by suggesting it in a roundabout way War, for instance”

Vittoria had been listening She clawed the air with her Wiccan W, when she sawflower, or a shrinking violet Vittoria was deadly nightshade Belladonna We broke into partners and the one A new one had replaced it

This ti immortal But she had never visited the sandpit, had she? My ,” she said, ”where is the joy in living, that you once knew as a child?” Lennox had said so similar We were on their boat, the Bellezza Immortale, which had a kind of painful poetry to its name Except Lennox equated it to artists, the va forever

There are no Rehed ”I should think not,” I said ”Could you i for one of them? After they painted you, they would eat your soul”

I hated listening to two vas of va

Life hat you ht so

It wasn't an endless, mindless existence Surely they saw that?

But Lennox, instead of seizing upon it, withdrew from my rationale His rakish hair was all over the place, blown about by the cool wind off the Lido We were at Rat Rock He was out, on the Finger of Rock, the cool line of stones that snaked into the lagoon water It was Midnight The serenity of the place hauntedmy past But these were the rooht, and the people I loved And Lennox was a person Perhaps I could help hi loved? If only he would love , but he shooka lookout there on the Rock at night, with his light, hidingthe intofrom my veins This coldness, followed by a nues I knew that they had tried to read her But I also knew that she had resisted the But it was too far away I was too far away It wasme away

I felt like I was on the outskirts of a fa hter, becole entity They formed a circle aboutinto er,down atfro to die or pass out I didn't know Almost like I was connected somehow to the Dioscuri, in a way I didn't fully comprehend They floated before me and I saw into their eyes So to ence hover on the precipice and then enter my soul

”You have darkness in you We feel it You could be Her The One It hurts us to look at you,” they said

The Dioscuri were subtle, mysterious, complex

”Why? What am I?”

The voices hissed atto them made my spine chill

”What do you know of my mother and father?”

”They were Rookmaakersyes” said the Dioscuri

”Am I the last Rookmaaker?” I asked

”We see into you We seeSt Martley's”

I saw Ballard again, leading an army Except he was older He had that scar on his face

It went down his neck, disappearing into his clothing He looked scared Gone was the curly head of hair, the happy smile

”What have you to do with the Master House?” I asked

It was iet back to Ballardto Lia and Gavento House Rookmaaker I had to find it Maybe I couldI don't knowrebuild it or so

”You are not who you think you are,” they said ”You are not Grace or Goodwill You are the One Join with us Seek them out Otherwise, you will suffer the fate of your parents And everyone you care about will die”

My Wiccan Mark flashed like quicksilver It was conjuring the Light of its own free will Lia's quickly joined it I could see her there, on the outskirts, trying to get inside She was not alone Selith her It ht flahtened

The petals of ertips, which beca ripped frointo the Star Room I could see the, silver fish, and their bright heads of hair But so The olves were also there Lia and Gaven and Ballard Ballard as racing to get to me I could see him briefly Who he was and who he could be I think we both had our own destinies He would need , it was up totrue But the Dioscuri were still in front of ht shut off as fast as it had co at Selas still with meand then, the next second, the Dioscuri had flown into hiht in theone ”Reain, Halsey Rookone, Selith the at an e I looked up and two sets of powerful arto protect us

I kept seeing Selwyn's eyes And thennothing

There was a coainst one another, the Heads of the various reers at Ballard and Gaven, ere holding onto Lia and I I saw Locke and some of the other olves They looked nervous

”The Dioscuri” said one witch

”Did they take him?” said another

”Selas here, and then just”

”Good riddance,” said another one