Tourmaline (2011)
Tourmaline
“Night had come. There was no moon, and to the east the stars were hidden in a flock of clouds. To the west the sky was clear, and there was a gentle glow in that part of the heavens across the river, though the sun had long since set. It was like the glow over a town at night, but there was no town there, only swamplands punctured with dead trees and then the snowy, empty woods.
It was the aurora borealis, Peter decided, feeling suddenly happy, suddenly sad. More than once his father had ta...ken him in the pickup to the top of Petersburg Pass. And once he'd taken a longer trip with both his parents to Quebec. They'd gone camping on a lake.
"Look," whispered Raevsky. Andromeda was silent, poised on three legs. The yellow fur was high along her back.
Peter had allowed himself a kind of relaxation by the fire. Hunched in his canvas jacket, hands held out, he did not care to look. He'd been thinking about the days when he'd lain sick and delusional inside the cave.MoreLess
It was the aurora borealis, Peter decided, feeling suddenly happy, suddenly sad. More than once his father had ta...ken him in the pickup to the top of Petersburg Pass. And once he'd taken a longer trip with both his parents to Quebec. They'd gone camping on a lake.
"Look," whispered Raevsky. Andromeda was silent, poised on three legs. The yellow fur was high along her back.
Peter had allowed himself a kind of relaxation by the fire. Hunched in his canvas jacket, hands held out, he did not care to look. He'd been thinking about the days when he'd lain sick and delusional inside the cave.MoreLess
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