“GONE” in italiano

He shifted, trying to stretch himself out, and realised he could move and that the rope was gone.

He could slip away in the night and be gone from this place.

They’d gone silent, their thoughts kept to themselves, their energy conserved for the difficult uphill trek.

He saw Liang, vanished, appeared again at the Arbiter’s ear, whispered for a moment and then was gone.

And Lou was gone.

Later, after Max and Taylor had gone and Mik had given up trying to be social in favour of getting drunk and staring out over the lights of London, Howard came up behind him, and softly said, ‘Hey you.

Memories burst like fireworks inside her, snap-firing in dazing succession, flashed then gone again: knocking the blood-tainted glass out of Baros Tsen’s hand; the Adamantine Man in Dhar Thosis, his voice, familiar, remembered – Get off her, you fat prick – and then a moment later slipping the knife off his belt ten years earlier as the words came out of his mouth, driving it through her father’s ribs, again and again and again until he stopped, the father who thought she was nothing better than his own personal whore to share with whoever might offer him the prettiest crown; Jehal on the day he’d told her that her mother was dead, the mother who’d done nothing but birth her and then betray her; riding Diamond Eye over the flames of Dhar Thosis, deliriously out of control and yet free, a fleeting moment when she’d been mistress of her own self; the dark room of fear and despair, always waiting for her and yet always waiting for the inevitable something worse; imprisoned from birth by who she was, who she must be.

Mor said when the owner had gone to tend to other tables, “I seem to remember a time when you enjoyed that sort of thing, too.

He looked pleased with himself and the rubble from the night before was gone.

” He winked, and was gone.

He’s still in intensive care after taking all those pills that caused a massive skin shed, at least three layers gone in twenty-four hours.