His voice was shakier than hers. 'It's not far now.'
'Too far,' she whispered. 'Just hold my hand.'
'Oh, shit.'
'It's all right, Joe.'
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He released his seat belt, leaned across the console, and took her hand. Her grip was weak.
'She needs you, Joe.'
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'You need to hide her... hide her away...'
'Rose-'
'Give her time . . . for her power to grow.'
'I can't save anyone.'
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She began to lose her grip on him.
He covered her hand with both of his, held it fast, would not let it slip from his grasp.
Voice ravelling away, she seemed to be receding from him though she did not move: 'Open. . . open your heart to her, Joe.'
Her eyelids fluttered.
'Rose, please don't.'
'It's all right.'
'Please. Don't.'
'See you later, Joe.'
'Please.'
'See you.'
Then he was alone in the night. He held her small hand alone in the night while the wind played a hollow threnody. When at last he was able to do so, he kissed her brow.
The directions Rose had given him were easy to follow. The cabin was neither in the town of Big Bear Lake nor elsewhere along the lake front, but higher on the northern slopes and nestled deep in pines and birches. The cracked and potholed blacktop led to a dirt driveway, at the end of which was a small white clapboard house with a shake-shingle roof.
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The cabin boasted a deep, elevated porch, on which three cane backed rocking chairs were arranged side by side. A handsome black man, tall and athletically built, stood at the railing, his ebony skin highlighted with a brass tint cast by two bare, yellow light bulbs in the porch ceiling.
The girl waited at the head of the flight of four steps that led up from the driveway to the porch. She was blond and about six years old.
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The wind shrieked and hissed through the needled teeth of the pines.
He walked to the foot of the steps.
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On the porch, the black man began to cry.
The girl spoke for the first time in over a year, since the moment outside the Ealings' ranch house when she had told Rose that she wanted to be called Nina. Gazing at the car, she said only one word in a voice soft and small: 'Mother.'
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