bowed to me. He really did turn on his heel, and he walked directly away from me.
I wished the concrete would open and swallow me. I truly wished it. I wanted to be ten years old and run home to my mother, who might comfort or lecture me, but who would be omnipotent. Or I wanted to be a hundred and twenty, and wise, and not care.
Anyway, I raced off the terrace, and to Clovis.
Copyright
METALLIC LOVE
A Bantam Spectra Book / March 2005
Published by
Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York
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Copyright © 2005 by Tanith Lee
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Published simultaneously in Canada
eISBN: 978-0-553-90126-9
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