[Виндичи]

Как это было на самом деле.

- Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?
- A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.
- You enjoy this duty?
He nodded.
- I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.
- Fitting, fitting, - I said. - I'll be needing a lantern.
He took one from the rack, brought it to flame from his candle.
- Will it have a happy ending? - I inquired.
He shrugged.
- I'll be happy.
- I mean, does good triumph and hero bed heroine? Or do you kill everybody off?
- That's hardly fair, - he said.
- Never mind. Maybe I'll read it one day.
- Maybe, - he said.