The sight of her cut through the foreground haze of panic in Susan’s mind . He opened the door, stepping back and raising the nail-studded club at the same time. They walked across the street together. “Jonas, listen,” Reynolds began, and then looked uncertainly at Rimer.
Eldred Jonas was one possibility; Kimba Rimer an even better one. Rimer watched them with his thin smile. “It could never be enough,” she said, looking from Jonas to Lengyll with an expression of contempt so deep it seemed bottomless. ”He poked a stick thoughtfully into the fire, seemed to become aware of the unconscious symbolism in what he was doing, and threw it away with a lopsided grin.
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