That the boy was all that stood between him and death.

“If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not…”

“In the morning they came up out of the ravine and took to the road again. He'd …”

“They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to the…”

“See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones.…”