Baker Bloch comes back to study it, knowing he was summoned.
“What do you think it is, W.?”
“You know what it is,” she replied, still beyond the frame. Probably Wheeler don’t you think? Maybe not.
“Oracle,” he answered. Both were thinking, of course, of Carrcassonnee. She’s returned (!).
“You put the eye in there,” she stated, ready to move beyond the veil, “and you’ll *see*.”
I wonder additionally if this is Borneo. Borneo to Delphos, actually. “Whadaya think, Blackey?” he says to his bird on his shoulder, the same size from this angle as the blackbird in the background more in the center of the beach, highlighting its name. Staring up as well, Blackey thinks hard. He knows it has something to do with TILE.
(to be continued)
Sunklands 