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“Salt from Brittany, and the Franche-Comté, who’ll save your flesh if you walk away? Indigo, indigo, precious & blue, as the peacock’s chest and his proud tail, too. Who’ll buy my musk? Who wants to make love? The rabbit, the fox and, in his turn, the dove.”

“Some righteous men and women yet held faith, but they were scattered so far that none could see the other’s light, and it seemed the darkness had no end.”

“Well, I do what I say. Which is why I don’t say much.”

“The players always invite the village priest to take part; Père Raoul played the serpent, and then the wicked man of Sodom, and then the devil. He had a pair of red horns. I think he liked being bad as long as it was for pretend.”

“He looked at her standing with her delicate arms and legs and thought how odd it was that children were small, and that they found this normal. He could not remember being small. What must he look like to her, standing so far above her, holding that murderous hammer? What did it feel like to know you lived or died at the whim of the giants around you?”

“And Lucifer spoke to him, saying, neither of these. What then, said the wicked angel. With a Great Plague, answered Lucifer. And so it was. And the years that had passed since the Lord had come to be born among men were one thousand, three hundred forty eight.”