Lord of the Hollow Dark (44 page)
“Houses live and die,” she had read somewhere in Eliot’s poems. This house which they were entering might be near death; yet, good at need, it would shelter them from the winter wind. In they all went, defying Kronos. Even a bowl of dried rose-petals might keep Time the Devourer from the threshold.
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