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r eonard ead would pause cock his head listen look and arch on his feet aking no noise on the lupy walk.
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!udden gray phantos seeed to anifest upon inner roo walls where a curtain was still undrawn against the night or there w ere whisperings and ururs where a window in a to)-like )uilding was still open. And on his wa y he would see the cottages and hoes with their dark windows and it was not une4ual to walking through a gra+eyard where only the faintest gliers of firefly light appeared in flickers )ehind the windows. !oeties he would walk for hours and iles and return only at idnight to his house. e would stand upon the corner of an intersection and peer down long oonlit a+enu es of sidewalk in four directions deciding which way to go )ut it really ade no difference he was alon e in this world of 20% A.3. or as good as alone and with a final decision ade a pa th selected he would stride off sending patterns of frosty air )efore hi like the soke of a cigar. $o enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o*clock of a isty e+ening in ,o+e)er to put your feet upon that )uckling concrete walk to step o+er grassy seas and ake your way hands in pockets through the silences that was what r eonard ead ost dearly lo+ed to do.