“I––I heard it repeated.”
“Not now,” he said. “Unless––” His eyes narrowed 367 and he sat swinging his legs with an absent air and puckered brows.
And after a while the same aloof look came into her brown eyes, and she swung her slim feet absently.
Perhaps their remote gaze was fixed on visions of a nearing future, brilliant with happiness, gay with children’s voices; perhaps they saw farther than that, where the light grew sombre and where a shadowed sky lowered above a blood-red flood, rising imperceptibly, yet ever rising––a stealthy, crawling crimson tide spreading westward across the world.
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