burn between us
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He thought about the last four words of Elian's second novel.
He thought about Màiri's box and the note at the bottom of it.
He thought about Zosia drawing the smiling figure and Tomasz understanding it.
He thought about Catalina with her first translation and Farber teaching German and Reyes finding what she was for and Brauer in Copenhagen with his family and Petra in Munich beginning and Tomasz about to begin and all the people not yet come through the room with its own entrance, the ones the foundation would reach through Vandermeersch's working group recognition and Elian's second novel's acknowledgment page and the slowly, carefully, correctly expanding network of people who knew the right direction existed.