burn between us
Out of Brussels and through the Belgian countryside that was very flat and very grey and very itself in February, and then into France, which was also grey but differently so — a different quality to the flatness, something more committed to its own particular character.
He talked as he drove — not continuously, but in the way of someone processing by language, which was simply how Elian's mind worked.
"The moment he said definitively," Elian said. "Vandermeersch. When he said definitive. First in the consultation, then again today when I asked him in the corridor. He uses the word carefully."
"He uses all words carefully," Dante said.
"So when he uses definitive, it means something specific
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