This was his compliment. He didn’t know a damned thing about who I was and what I’d done in the last forty-eight hours. So given that fact, I was rather warmed by his appraisal, and intrigued by his comments on Sands—Juno Sands. Gee, the bastard actually had a first name.
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What do the mythologists say about the great crusades of history? It takes three days in the underworld before the hero brings back the hard won truth or victory.
I had my three days… and the third was the most amazing of all. Too bad that I didn’t see the end as the spectacular awakening it truly was. Only time and distance would grant me the wisdom I could have easily recognized at the time, but didn’t.
“You really lost it, didn’t you?”
Sands was in my room, pacing as he would do, even though the space was tig
