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Shadow could not understand about the war games that humans played. When they roughhoused, they killed each other. Why can’t they just roughhouse like dogs, and when they are through, walk away?
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Every rhythm prepares a future. The prayers sung, the drums that beat around the stone circle of the fire pit so long ago, still rang. In the icy air, Shadow felt the tremendous rhythm of Thunderbird’s wings beating at his own ribs.
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Every rhythm prepares a future.
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I have been fortunate, he thought. I have known many mothers. Alice and Lora and Oota Dabun, but I will always recall my first mom when I was but a Lost Boy. Of all my mothers, I will always remember my Wendy most.
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Still, the comfort in his small bed made Theo feel tragic, his mattress a coffin, the bludgeoning rain his burial soil.
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Have you ever walked with your dog on a summer’s morning on the seashore? Or walked with him on an autumn’s afternoon when the leaves are in full color?”Inevitably, the client would say yes.“And did it sometimes feel that all of Nature was your own room? That you could be there forever?”“Yes.”“Well, that’s what dogs do. They destroy time.
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He tried?” she screamed. “It is not enough to try!” she screamed again. “He promised me! He promised us!
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You have to ask for it,” Theo told Shadow. “Magic doesn’t come unless it’s summoned.
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Oh, sweetie, I am already comfy here,” she replied, as she pushed her hair back and looked at him with crushed eyes. And it seemed to Theo that she was already dreaming as she spoke to him, the attention of her gaze already gone from her shaken body, sleep her true escape. Even at the age of elev-en, Theo knew much. Whatever the attitude of his mother’s body, he understood that her soul was on its knees.
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