2013年1月9日星期三

缇庡浗浼楃 American Gods_407

choed Easter.
He shook his head. "They gave me something to do with my hands." He bent down to pull on his shoes.
Once he was dressed, he looked more normal. Grave, though. She wondered how far he had traveled, and what it had cost him to return. He was not the first whose return she had initiated; and she knew that, soon enough,foamposites for cheap, the million-year stare would fade, and the memories and the dreams that he had brought back from the tree would be elided by the world of things you could touch. That was the way it always went.
She led their way to the rear of the meadow. Her mount waited in the trees.
"It can't carry both of us," she told him. "I'll make my own way home."
Shadow nodded. He seemed to be trying to remember something. Then he opened his mouth, and he screeched a cry of welcome and of joy.
The thunderbird opened its cruel beak, and it screeched a welcome back at him.
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Shadow nodded. "I had a dream of thunderbirds once," he said. "Damnest dream I ever had."
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He reached out a hand and rubbed it gently against the bird's head. The thunderbird pushed up against him like an affectionate pony. He scratched it from the nape of its neck up to the crown.
Shadow turned to Easter. "You rode him here?"
"Yes," she said. "You can ride him back, if he lets you."
"How do you ride him?"
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"Will I see you back there?"
She shook her head. "I'm done, honey," she told him. "You go do what you need to do. I'm tired. Good luck."
Shadow nodde

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