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Rats and Gargoyles Part 59

She covered her mouth with one fisted hand, looking at him for a minute over her knuckles.

"Too easy," she said. "You're the same and I'm the samewe're not, but somehow we've grown in the same way. It's as if I'd never left."

The Lord-Architect Casaubon looked up at her loftily. He flicked water from cushioned fingers and held out a demanding hand. The White Crow grabbed his hand, heaving to help him from the bath.

Her heels skidded on the floorboards, his hand wrapped around her wrist and pulled. The White Crow swore, startled, sprawled face down across his chest, and slid to sit in his lap and six inches of soapy water. The Lord-Architect let go of her hand, and bent a painful inch forward to kiss her, bird-delicate, on the lips.

"Shit-damned-cretinous-moronic-!"

She slumped back against his thighs and knees: padded as pillows. One of her heels skidded for purchase on the boards, but obtained no balance. She sat back in the hot soapy water.

"You might as well," Casaubon said, "have a bath while you're here?"

"Casaubon . . . !"

The White Crow pushed flattened fingers through the tiny copper curls on his chest. She shook her head. Reaching his cheek, she patted twice, hard enough to sting. He sat very still, arms hanging out of the sides of the bath.

"I can't be here any longer"he made a sideways movement of the head that took in the city called the heart of the world"and not touch you."

His large hands came up, moving delicately as watchmaker's fingers to unbutton her wet shirt.

The White Crow drew his head forward to her breasts.

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