Gideon said, Dad? as he swung the door open and they entered hisfather's flat. ere, in this particular room, guard-less,wall-less, lock-and-key-less, with what was left of her life I'm not very good but it doesn't matterbecause I don't, like, do it to be good. And they'd taken itmutually, hadn't they? What difference did it make that he'd been theone to suggest it? He'd used sound reasoning.
I drew a breath and with the air came the image of thatdoor once again: that blue blue door at the top of the stairs, thosetwo locks upon it, that ring at its centre. How do you think I abide inside these walls? she'd oncesaid to Yasmin. He was waiting for her just outside the lift, across the strip oftarmac that did for the Arnold House car park. If she had been intent upon punishing herself for thetransgression of human despair, for the unspoken wish so horriblygranted to
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