In some days or weeks or months from now, left behind as a small party follows Abby and Ellie into the rain, perhaps John will wish that this borrowed power had lingered in them.
Now though—
"It is not only the possessions."
But in the gulf beyond that there is some vast, dark space in which lives many things John has not (cannot) speak of. John knows the shape of it to be twinned in Flint, but the things which dwell there are different. They answer to different names. Flint can make them come when called, when John sliced his own from his tongue.
The whistling has grown faint. John's fingers have stilled, apart from a minor press of fingertip to the seam over his knee.
"Do you recall your swordsmanship?"
A broad question; does John mean the ability itself returned, after they've been so long dwelling in the Fade, or the lessons imparted to John on that beach?
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Now though—
"It is not only the possessions."
But in the gulf beyond that there is some vast, dark space in which lives many things John has not (cannot) speak of. John knows the shape of it to be twinned in Flint, but the things which dwell there are different. They answer to different names. Flint can make them come when called, when John sliced his own from his tongue.
The whistling has grown faint. John's fingers have stilled, apart from a minor press of fingertip to the seam over his knee.
"Do you recall your swordsmanship?"
A broad question; does John mean the ability itself returned, after they've been so long dwelling in the Fade, or the lessons imparted to John on that beach?