Dieu swallowed hard, and then something came to her. She no longer had Songs of Everlasting Sorrow, but it had been her favorite, and it lived in her mind and in her heart still. “From the deepest part of the Yellow Springs, my dear husband, I call to you . . .” “I’m right here,” said the second Cheng son in surprise, and the tiger growled. “No one was talking to you,” she said. “My eyes are open for always, my mouth is empty for always, and always will my soul reach for yours. In the land of the dead, there are only blackbirds, and I send this one to you, in the hopes that you remember me
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