"Charles de Lint - Sign Here" - читать интересную книгу автора (De Lint Charles)

"How'd you do it really?"

"It's this way of, I don't know. Seeing things differently. Like, you can actually see the molecules of the
air and you just kind of convince them to be something other than what they are. Apparently, when you
get good at it, you can do it with anything, and not just a tiny flame like this. But air to fire's supposed to
be one of the easier ones, so that's why he started me out with it."

"And he just showed it to you, out of the blue."

"Pretty much. He said he's been looking for someone he can teach all this stuff he knows, and that I
looked like the right kind of guy. He said I was 'receptive.'"

"More like gullible."

"Hey, this is real."

"Let meтАФow!"

"I told you."

"So what's he get out of it?"

"Nothing, really."

"Come on. He's got to want something."

"Well, he had me sign this piece of paperтАж"

"Jesus, what did you sign away?"

"My soul."

"Get real."

"That's all it said. He gets it when I die."


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'This is too weird."

"Don't go all Catholic on me. I don't believe in souls and neither do you. Hell, when was the last time
you were in a church?"

"Yeah, but think about it. That was based on limited knowledge."

"What are you talking about?"