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283 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2003
“Tell me about your names.”
“You won't return to your spouse's bedchamber the same person as you came if I tell you about my names.”
“You inflame my curiosity.”
“You obviously understand what it means for water and fire to meet.”
“Water and fire?”
“The offspring of water and the offspring of fire...”
“You're contributing to my insanity.”
“I have seven names. They are my veils.”
“Your veils?”
“They are more like scarves that protect me from people's duplicity.”
“Do you have enemies?”
“Strangers only attribute cunning to a person who has enemies.”
“It would really be sweet if I could hear the rest of your names.”
“How can I tell you my other names when you haven't even decoded the talisman protecting the first one?”
“How can the talisman for the first name be decoded?”
“The only way to decode it is through the union of fire and water.”
“But their union destroys the fire.”
“The fire that dies in their union brings new life to the water. What doesn't perish in the wasteland is not generated in the spirit world.”