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- <p>"You're worried about him, aren't you?"</p> <p>Williams didn't turn around. "Yeah. I guess I am." He exhaled cigar smoke. "It's not like him to be so …"</p> <p>"Morose?"</p> <p>"Yeah. I guess that's it. You know, he's been at that pond almost since we got here … just drinking and staring … completely oblivious. Remember how I told you that neither of us could recall our previous lives? Well, maybe he's recalling …" He paused, struggling to find the right words. "A different state of being. A different incarnation. I think he was a man once. A man who lived for a very long time."</p> <p>"A lonely man, then …"</p> <p>"Yes. Sort of a last man standing. And I think when we met … he rediscovered something he'd been missing for a long time."</p> <p>"Friendship. Someone to talk to," she said.</p> <p>"More than that. A reason to live. IーI've felt it myself. All those weeks, months, spent walking alone. I told you about Tanelorn. Well that was what we called our reason to live … our reason for putting one foot in front of the other. Because without that …"</p> <p>"'Gazelle Theory,'" she said.</p> <p>"What?"</p> <p>She laughed a little. "Something my husband used to say. It means, 'move or die.'"</p> <p>He laughed a little himself. "That's good. 'Move or die.' Whether it's a physical death or an emotional one." He stared at Ank in the gloaming before another hand touched him, this time Luna. "Is Ank all right?"</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。