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

by Dean Koontz

In light of his recent visions of America in the iron grip of totalitarian mass murderers, Nameless is moved by Rainer’s story to a degree he might not have been a year earlier. Before asking the key question that he needs to pose, he sits in silence for a minute, his eyes closed. Then he looks at the big man. “They need someone. Evie could use a father, someone wise enough for her to respect. Asteria could use a grandfather. Family is the glue that holds the world together, even when it’s not a family of one blood. Do you think you could care about them?” “I already do. The girl has spirit that reminds me of Pearl, my wife. The mother has it but doesn’t know she does.” “It would mean no more hiding out from anything. It would mean being there for them no matter what might lie ahead.” Rainer cocks his head, regarding Nameless with one eye moonlit and one eye not. “You sense it coming, too.” “What do you say, Mr. Rudge?” “I never was a father, so never a grandfather, either. I think I could be a halfway good one, you know, in an honorary sense. What do you think?” “Asteria and Evie will give you courage every bit as much as those words on your arm.”