Beyond Night
He looked in the woods like the lost man in a crowd, searching for an old friend, for Drust smiled when he discovered what his eyes longed for.
Gonar stayed behind his master a little ways, and then picked up the bag Drust had dropped by the altar before. The boy watched his master walk to an ugly tree. The tree, half dead, split in half, and bent to the waiting ground, shrugging like a body killed and curled up cumbersomely. The old man undid his robe and let it drop to the earth. Though impossibly old, Drust’s body looked as lean as a man in his twenties, Gonar thought, but he’d seen him naked before. Many doubted the true age of master Drust, that he couldn’t possibly be centuries old, ma
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