The Secret Knowledge (26 page)

“Their only power comes from your own fear and imagination. None of this is real, Pierre. You’re free of them now.”

The waiter brings their drinks; Yvette takes a sip of lemonade while music drifts on the warm air from a distant band. And for an instant she feels it, the tremor, the flash, a warning from the world’s far edge.

“You’re right, Yvette, we shall live for the future, not the past. We shall rejoice forever in the contemplation of beauty and eternal love. You are my angel, my life, my immortal beloved.”

But Yvette has seen the future. The days have passed, the children to be born are older than expired time. In this sepia moment we are already ghosts.

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