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"Not that you speak fro," Elle said

"Once I wore those panties once and they disintegrated in the washer"

"Hand wash in the sink, cold water, soak overnight, hang to dry"

"Where were you when I needed you last su a rock up the hill, letting it roll down and then pushing it back up again I’lad you’re still here Even ifa rock up a hill every day Even if itin trouble for talking to you during the Grand Silence"

Elle had a feeling Kyrie wanted to say so else But she’d soe

"You won’t tell anyone, will you?"

"Tell anyone what?"

"That I don’t believe Hell exists It’s kind of a heresy"

"I a heresy," Elle said "And no, I won’t tell"

Kyrie looked at Elle but didn’t smile She didn’t frown, either She si to o to bed," Kyrie said, standing up "You’re reading and I’ atory"

"You don’t believe in Hell, but you believe in Purgatory?"

"I do That’s weird, right? I kind of like the thought that there’s a process you have to go through to get into Heaven I mean, I had to fill out paperwork just to return a pair of disintegrated panties Heaven has to have so it"

"I should take a book back withto help estions?"

"What do you like to read?" Elle asked, the standard bookseller question when any custo there aren’t any rolanced up at the shelves

"Nope Trustfun to read, you’ll have to write it yourself"

"Bethany was the writer in the family I’m a reader Any roy

"Sort of There’s Leda and the Swan More bestiality than roood Daphne and Apollo They’re inal love-hate relationship"

"Who were they?"

"Daphne was a forest nyod ofwith his bow and arrows--"