My bat some o, but did noto soots of    of ternoon and crept into bed, pulling tra covers ill srange visions. er and my faturbing to me as it sed and altered, sometimes myself, sometimes anot oms o ths of sleep.

        I as and my back. A tired o do ion or lack of sleep    tment     me but only very distantly, and long minutes passed before I could rouse myself to look at my t repidation? nostalgia? excitement?—

        and it o a sense of expectation.

        t urning! My sister ing it. I couldn’t see    smell    my inner ear, attuned alo    ion, and it filled me h a dark and soporific joy.

        to put off Aurelius. My sister , I o meet    too cold and o take off my pajamas before dressing, I pulled a t and ser oop. Bundled up like a c, I    doairs to tc a eal for me, but I ite aou minutes I sat at tcable, longing to y eyes and not daring to, in case I gave in to torpor t ing my oabletop.

        ites to spare, I opeco the garden.

        No ligars. I stumbled in t soil underfoot and told me ect tion. I uood entirely. It was er was ing.

        I reag point. tirred itself. It self clasped.

        ‘Are you all right?“

        I ion, but distantly.

        ‘Do you emperature?“

        t    they had no meaning.

        I’d o tell    tions, to tell    my sister    se no; I kne from t radiating from    te sound of ood between me and my words and made me dumb.

        Aurelius let go of my o remove a glove, and I felt rangely cool in t night, on my forehead. “You should be in bed,” he said.

        I pulled at Aurelius’s sleeve, a feeble tug, but enougatue on casters.

        I    aken t o Emmeline’s apartment, but t, too,    ture t presents itself to my mind is t it ss oe impossible. I must , but ty    and tself persists.

        My memory of    niged. racts of time s seem in my recolle to eningly large, tiny marioes a great distance aed during tion: my sister.

        By a process of logid reason, I tempted to plato a meaningful sequence images t my mind recorded only inpletely and in random fass in a dream.

        Aurelius and I entered Emmeline’s rooms. Our step . tepped, until o a room o tanding in to us    a beginning,    a resolution, t ed me ever since I came to t s o my    vied    of my sister. At my side Aurelius ed for me to announce us to Emmeline. But I could not speak. to an unbearable ululation in my ime strete eternal sed; I ruck dumb. I brougo my ears, desperate to ease ture, it was Aurelius w!”

        And urns. Since saken by surprise, to a distorted O, but t stop, only veers and lurco a surns in so Emmeline and is transfixed by the air.

        For a time I am boto a w    know wo clasp o repel    akes .

        h of sorrow.

        Inside my ill, a torment e sound. My sister— My sister—

        treats and I find myself alone in an agony of noise.

        I kno remember it. Aurelius releases Emmelienderly onto teps in tion as Judit ime it takes o go and find a sed set—Maurice’s, probably— Aurelius darts too t last eares at Emmeline on teps in my dire.

        But at time I kno t is my sister embraces me, possesses me, relieves me of sciousness. At last.
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