We Were Kings (2016)
“The wind at this height sets her hair flowing, and she has to push it out of her eyes. She is saying something, calling to him, and she lifts an arm and waves and he laughs because he can’t hear her and he tells her to wait, he must come closer, but there is no sound and then she goes to the edge of the roof and steps off, and she falls as she bursts into flame.
Cal opened his eyes. He was sitting in the car, smoke twining lazily upward from a cigarette in his hand, the ash fallen onto the ...seat and his lap. A soprano was singing the Ave Maria on the radio, so achingly beautiful it left him cold, and he switched it off.
There was a rap on the passenger-side door, and Cal turned his head. Dante was on the sidewalk; he’d struck the door with his knuckles, and now he leaned in the window. “You ready?” he said.
Cal ground what was left of the cigarette into the ashtray, worked his way out of the seat, shirt sticking to the vinyl, and climbed out.MoreLess
Cal opened his eyes. He was sitting in the car, smoke twining lazily upward from a cigarette in his hand, the ash fallen onto the ...seat and his lap. A soprano was singing the Ave Maria on the radio, so achingly beautiful it left him cold, and he switched it off.
There was a rap on the passenger-side door, and Cal turned his head. Dante was on the sidewalk; he’d struck the door with his knuckles, and now he leaned in the window. “You ready?” he said.
Cal ground what was left of the cigarette into the ashtray, worked his way out of the seat, shirt sticking to the vinyl, and climbed out.MoreLess
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