The Luna He Abandoned のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 41 - チャプター 44

A name on a page is only paper, until someone dares to dispute it."The registrar of Thornmere keeps the pack records in a round stone room beneath the east tower, and she was waiting for us at eight sharp with her spectacles pushed up into her grey hair and a ledger older than the three of us put together.Cole walked in as though he had been summoned to run the place."Is this where the names go?" he asked."This is exactly where the names go," said the registrar gravely."Mine already has a name.""So I understand. We are going to make it longer."He considered this with his head tipped to one side. "How much longer?""By one.""Is it a good one?"Finn, who stood very straight beside the door with his hands clasped behind him like a wolf awaiting sentence, said, "It's mine," and Cole nodded as if that settled the matter, and the registrar bent her head to hide her mouth.I had been over the form three times the night before. Voss had been over it four. It was the neatest legal inst

"Some questions are not asked to be answered. They are asked to see who will stay in the room."I had not answered him.That was the thing I could not forgive myself on the walk down. Cole had asked it so simply, with his cheek on the pillow and the rabbit's ear in his fist, and I had heard myself say, "Let me think about that, darling," in a voice so bright it could have cut glass. He had said "Okay," and rolled over, and been asleep in four minutes, as only a child can who has put down something heavy and trusts the grown-ups to pick it up.I had stood in the dark beside his bed for a long time. Then I had come to find his father.Now I stood in the middle of Finn's study with my arms folded across my cardigan like a barricade, and I watched the question reach him.It reached him slowly. It went in somewhere under the ribs, and for a second the whole large, controlled shape of him simply stopped, as if somebody had pressed a hand flat against a clock. He sat down. Not elegantly. He