Blackwater Val
He detected a hint of accent but wasn’t sure what it was.
“It is believed,” he went on, “that the soul—your soul, friends—is connected to the body by a thin, invisible line. And when these clay pots of ours ‘break’, or give out . . . ” The old man thumped his torso with both fists. “ . . . when our springs and summers have flown, and when the bleak winter of our life grows colder and these clay pots doth break—” He struck himself sharply a second time, and the hollow echo of it and of his voice hung frozen in the air a moment. “—once that invisible silver cord is severed, we cannot get back. Ever. The separation of spirit from flesh becomes final. In a word: we die.”
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