Chapter 18:
Dark and silence. That was all Lucky found waiting for him as the final hum and glow of the cosmic clock died away. The cries of the universe ceased. The cries were the metal machine grinding to a final halt. Lucky envisioned the world above was not doing much better. Would rivers run backward, or at all? Would the rain stop or fly into the sky? Would babies climb back inside the womb from fright? All interesting questions Lucky considered in that second before the total silence was punctuated by a grunt from above as Adriana worked.
He once heard that people who lose one sense experience a strengthening of the other senses until they grew strong enough to compensate for the loss. Theoretically, it made sense. However, he had not experienced any gain of sense when he lost an
