The Golden Scales
“He was mixing things up in his head and was in danger of being swept away by his own theorising. Still, he could not help it. Thoughts of his own daughter and where she might have been now had she lived were never going to leave him. Was there really any purpose in going after Liz Markham’s daughter? Was his intuition right? Could there be a connection between Liz Markham’s death and Hanafi’s past, or was that just wishful thinking on his part?
Having just read Strangeways’s report, Makana look...ed at the bazaar around him in a different way. He imagined how it might have appeared to Liz Markham, scared and alone, with a little child in tow. The memory of Alice Markham was now written into these narrow streets, the cluttered shop windows, the glittering rows of gold and semi-precious stone, the tiny statuettes of goddesses and fiends, idols of another age. All around him was the intricate interplay of colour and inlay, angle and curve, shadow and light. Somewhere in the middle of all this a little girl had fallen through a hole in the world and vanished without trace.MoreLess
Having just read Strangeways’s report, Makana look...ed at the bazaar around him in a different way. He imagined how it might have appeared to Liz Markham, scared and alone, with a little child in tow. The memory of Alice Markham was now written into these narrow streets, the cluttered shop windows, the glittering rows of gold and semi-precious stone, the tiny statuettes of goddesses and fiends, idols of another age. All around him was the intricate interplay of colour and inlay, angle and curve, shadow and light. Somewhere in the middle of all this a little girl had fallen through a hole in the world and vanished without trace.MoreLess
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