I had caught a good look at him as he stepped into the boat. With little difficulty I heard him make his way down the staircases through the palazzo and then I saw him come out into the canal arid hail a gondola which took him away. Is it worth your life to know what you want to know of me? Interfere with me and you will surely die. I resolved to ignore this, to see what came of it, not to allow it to impede me in the slightest as I enjoyed my life.Īll this his mind gave me rather easily without the young man realizing it, obviously, and then using the Mind Gift I sent a very direct message to him.Īt this point, meaning to confront him and terrify him, I came to the very edge of the roof garden and peered across the canal at him, and there I made out his stealthy shape, and how he meant to cloak himself, and how fearful yet fascinated he was.
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It struck me with full force that there had been moments in my long life when I would have found his message irresistible, so great had been my loneliness, so great had been my longing to be understood. I wondered if it corresponded to the prime of life in mortals-those years when you are strongest andĬan see with the greatest clarity, those years when you can give your trust most truly to others, and seek to bring about a perfect happiness for yourself.īotticelli, Bianca, Amadeo-these were the loves of my Perfect Time. I wondered if for every immortal there was a Perfect Time.
On the contrary, he was a most strange sort of being, a scholar of the supernatural, a spy upon creatures such as me. He was no great Venetian, no painter, no cleric, no poet, no alchemist, and certainly no member of the Grand Council of Venice. I knew it die moment I penetrated his mind. But this young mortal had nothing to do with the grand society in which I moved.
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