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The mirror behind him was more crack than glass. All along its great length, the dark backing showed through where projectiles had, over the years, contributed to an increasingly elaborate archipelago of absence.
“If you like. In the meantime, find something better to do than this. Pretend that you are worth the trouble until you convince yourself that you are.”
Secrets were burdensome and demanding of regular attention; a secret had to be nursed at odd hours and dandled in the night.
Scrawling that hubristic phrase “Chapter One” is itself a profession of faith.
