““The beautiful, glittering name fell out of the sky like a steel- blue feather. She watched it fall, turning and twisting like a slow- falling arrow that cleaves the deep air beautifully. He was coming, as he always came, in moments of dead calm; when the wave rippled and the spotted leaves fell slowly over her foot in the autumn woods; when the leopard was still; the moon was on the waters, and nothing moved between sky and sea. Then he came.””
