Free Fall (Pyramid of Gold)

He gasped, and I felt the temperature in the room suddenly drop. Zero clenched his fist, knuckles white, his features crooked. Then his shoulders dropped, his face smoothed. He exhaled slowly, like a dying man on the death's bed.

When he opened his eyes, he seemed somehow less mad. Older, more tired. There was a dark fire in his eyes now, a lot of pain, and a bottomless sea of cold, frightening resolution. He looked around, taking everything in, and then turned to us.

Sergei Duncan smiled a little, and said:

'Is that you, Mickey? You have grown.'

Mickey flinched as though someone had hit him. His lips quivered.

'Yes. Yes, it's me.'

'And you are Matthew. Linda's boy.'

I gritted my teeth.

'Yes, I am. So it's true then. You knew her.'

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'I have.'

'You knew her on the Farm.'