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r75y91yxdw ([info]r75y91yxdw) wrote,
@ 2010-03-30 00:47:00

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Elizabeth was just a kidPerse had been asleep for...
Elizabeth was just a kidPerse had been asleep for a long time
Sleeping under the sand, full fathom five
859
"Very poetic," Jack said, "but I don't know
exactly what you're talking about
"Neither do I," I said"Because her I don't see
If Elizabeth drew pictures of Perse, she destroyed
themI find it suggestive that she turned to
collecting china figures in her old age, but maybe
that's just a coincidenceWhat I know is that
Perse established a line of communication with the
child, first through her drawings, then through
her up-to-then favorite doll, NoveenAnd Perse
instituted a kind ofwell, exercise programI
don't louis vuitton diaper bag tote know what else you'd call itShe persuaded
Elizabeth to draw things, and those things would
happen in the real world
"She's been playing the same game with you, then,"
Jack said
"And my eye," Wireman said"Don't forget fixing
my eye
"I'd like to think that was all me," I saidbut
had it been? "There have been other things, though
Small things, mostlyusing some of my pictures
as a crystal ballI didn't
really want to go there, because that road led
back to TomTom who should have been fixed
860
"Tell us the rest of what you found out from her
pictures," Wireman saidStart with that out-of-season
hurricaneElizabeth white leather prada handbags summoned it up, probably with
help from Perse
"You've got to be shitting me," Jack said
"Perse told Elizabeth where the debris was, and
Elizabeth told her fatherAmong the litter was
alet's say there was a china figure, maybe a
foot high, of a beautiful woman Yes, I could see
thatNot the details, but the figureAnd the
empty, pupil-less pearls that were her eyes"It
was Elizabeth's prize, her fair salvage, and once
it was out of the water, it really went to work
Jack spoke very softly"Where would a thing like
that have come from to begin with, Edgar?"
A phrase rose to my lips, from where I don't know,
only that it wasn't my louis vuitton diaper bags own: There were elder gods
in those days; kings and queens they wereI didn't want to hear it, not even
in that well-lighted room, so I only shook my headAnd I don't know what country's
flag that ship might have been flying when it blew
in here, maybe scraping its hull open on the top
861
of Kitt Reef and spilling some of its cargoI
don't know much of anything for surebut I
think that Perse has a ship of her own, and once
she was free of the water and completely welded to
Elizabeth Eastlake's powerful child's mind, she
was able to call it
"A ship of the dead," Wireman saidHis face was
childlike with fear and chanel watch women wonderOutside, a wind
shook the massed foliage in the courtyard; the
rhododendrons nodded their heads and we could hear
the steady, sleepy sound of the waves pounding the
shoreI had loved that sound ever since coming to
Duma Key, and I still loved it, but now it
frightened me, toowhat?
Persephone?"
"If you like," I said"It's certainly crossed my
mind that Perse was Elizabeth's way of trying to
say thatIt doesn't matter; we're not talking
Greek mythology hereWe're talking about
something far older and more monstrousThat much it does have in common with
vampiresOnly hungry for souls, not bloodAt
least that's what I balenciaga replica handbags think


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