MD3PAD 559-561

[Toby G Levy]

        Deep inside the missing days, Mason finds himself in a library
among the shelves that only the Elect may read, which includes missing
Gospels and Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hypatia.  He finally gets hungry
and returns to the street where he is confronted by whirring objects he
hopes are bats and howls he hopes are from dogs.  The moon remains full
and present for the entire eleven days.

        In a courtyard he discovers an invisible barrier he knows he must
not cross. But he crosses it anyway.

        He decides to find some wine to drink. He is drawn to the edge
of the eleven days and emerges when kissed by Rebekah, who at that time
was his fiance.  He knew it was not a dream because he was bitten while
inside the eleven days. Dixon wants to see the scar but Mason said it
disappeared about ten minutes after he returned from the vortex.

vw#118: Noctambulation - walking by a person who is asleep.

        Mason takes from his experience that life is a finite period at
the end of which he will be reunited from his wife.  Here chapter 56
ends.

Toby