““Zach's eyelids flutter and droop, his mind a pleasant jumble—things said tonight, last year, last month, things said in dreams. He sees Lev, Tasha, Rachel, and something he read earlier, what was it? In one of Rachel's books, circled in pen, a book of Natural History. ' Many birds and mammals, wolves in particular, have a —' What? Oh yes. ' —a fateful preference for the ancestral nesting place. ' And Rachel wrote in the margin: ' Ha ha ha! It has a strange attraction! ””
