Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not (Nameless: Season Two #4)

by Dean Koontz

Meecham and Dockerman might have kept on sleepwalking if Sebastian hadn’t made the mistake that woke them. The Guide of Guides has first choice of the sisters he wants for his brides. This never bothered Meecham or Dockerman enough to mutter about, but the change in the marriage rules pissed them off. People outside the Retreat, boring line walkers who think they’re better than Meecham, say he has a sickness, but he rejects that diagnosis. As far as he’s concerned, it’s not even a weakness, as some call it. His taste is just more refined than those of the walk-the-line types who don’t know what they’re missing. He likes his women as young as he can get them, and he’s gotten a few, which is why he ended up on the run and in the Retreat, where no one can find him. The youngest he’s had in the Retreat is sixteen, because until Asteria there was none younger, so he just had to settle for what was. He and Brian talk about the past, what they once had and what they did, because they share the same taste. Talking about it isn’t the same as doing it, but it’s something.