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Summary
A knock. Someone is at the compartment door.
Tante Sofia. She takes Dick back to her wagon with her, shuts the curtains so he cannot see the red-and-blue flash of the police lights, cranks up her old phonograph with some Django Reinhardt records so he cannot hear the sirens.
She even offers him the Egyptian hookah pipe. He refuses, then hesitates, and takes it from her. The vapor tickles the back of his throat. He coughs tremendously.
While his eyes water and his lungs draw in frantic gulps of air, Tante takes the pipe back and asks him,
“Why are you not crying yet, motănel?”
Series
- Part 1 of birds and murders (and murders of birds)