burn between us
Dante looked at him — the completion quality, the third time he'd seen it, the specific stillness of someone who has set down the last of four enormous things.
"Read me the last sentence," Dante said.
Elian read it.
Dante heard it standing in the kitchen — the same kitchen, the coffee, the morning coming in through the window the way it always came.
"Yes," he said. "That's right."
"It's right," Elian said.
"The whole series," Dante said. "Four novels. Arriving, staying, becoming, having-been. And the last sentence of the last one is a morning."
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