![]() ![]() But she'd never seen the look of stupefaction he wore right now. She was probably more familiar with his face, and with his limited palette of expressions, than she was with her own. So she hauled on his arm again, yelling for him to get away from the door, and this time her message got through to him.įive stairs up, Tammy chanced a backward glance, but Katya was still standing in front of the door. That was not to say that she didn't want Todd safe from this place from the house and all its inhabitants, especially Katya. The next the door had shut this terrible vision out, and she was back in the little hallway with Todd at her side. One moment Tammy had been staring into Zeffer's stricken face, while the men closed in on him from behind, and the sky seethed overhead. Then-summoning one last Herculean effort of will-he gave Tammy a tiny smile and closed the door in her face. There was a long moment when in fact he did nothing only teetered on the threshold, his eyelids growing lazy. He had his eyes fixed on Tammy as he did so, as though he was drawing the power to do whatever he was planning to do from her. Zeffer threw back his head, and caught hold of the edge of the door with his unmaimed hand. #The chambers dictionary online crackedThere was a terrible cracking sound, as the blade cracked Zeffer's breastbone and then the point emerged from the middle of his chest. She was simply staring at the door as though she could see through it to the horror on the other side. The sight of Zeffer's execution had momentarily distracted Katya from any further mischief. No doubt he was responsible for all manner of crimes-in such a landscape as he'd ridden who would not lay claim to their share of felonies?-but in that moment, in the midst of a dark journey of her own, Tammy would have instinctively preferred the eloquence of this face for company than Todd's easy beauty. He was by no means as beautiful as Todd had once been, but there was a gravitas in his physiognomy which Todd's corn-fed charm could never have approached. ![]() Though none of the light from the hallway seemed to illuminate the world on the other side of the doorway, Tammy could see the man's face quite clearly: his severely angular features, his long, braided beard, black shot through with streaks of gray his dark, heavy-lidded eyes. He hung back from the door, eyeing it with suspicion and awe. Through the window off to their left Tammy could see the sight that had held Zeffer's attention just minutes before: the occupants of Coldheart Canyon pressing against the glass. Now the escapees were on the half-landing. ![]()
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