The Child Eater (2015)
“He still labored for Veil, but every other moment, he read and practiced, so much so that Veil took it on herself to reassure him that the knowledge, once given, could not be taken away. “You would have to forget yourself entirely,” she said, “before you forgot how to read.”
Matyas didn’t slow down. He read Veil’s books, some passages two or three times when he found he could understand the words but not what they meant. Slowly, over time, he began to read more quickly, suddenly remembering som...ething he’d encountered a month before that had made no sense to him but now fitted perfectly with a new passage. As well as the books, he studied the strange objects that filled Veil’s very plain tower home. He began to recognize such things as clocks that marked the slow movements of the stars rather than the Sun’s swift dash, or a feather that was in fact attached to a bird who existed in some other world entirely but for that one feather poking into our world.
Sometimes he saw the lights, the Splendor as Medun had called them, but only for a few seconds.MoreLess
Matyas didn’t slow down. He read Veil’s books, some passages two or three times when he found he could understand the words but not what they meant. Slowly, over time, he began to read more quickly, suddenly remembering som...ething he’d encountered a month before that had made no sense to him but now fitted perfectly with a new passage. As well as the books, he studied the strange objects that filled Veil’s very plain tower home. He began to recognize such things as clocks that marked the slow movements of the stars rather than the Sun’s swift dash, or a feather that was in fact attached to a bird who existed in some other world entirely but for that one feather poking into our world.
Sometimes he saw the lights, the Splendor as Medun had called them, but only for a few seconds.MoreLess
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