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I still can’t pick up Kev’s own frequency, however; so I scan the city, seeking Scorpio’s instead. My vision streaks high above the bright Midtown skyscrapers, drinking in their beauty for a moment. Then it zooms down between them, plunging down and further down, and isolates and enters a small slim figure flitting fast through a neon pulse of lights near Times Square.

Scorpio glances up, as if to find a scrutiny of eyes from the air. Something infuses him; his taut, nervy body feels something comparatively sweet and light, something or someone he has known before. It’s sought him, he feels, and investigates him now: gentle and soft, but undeceivable; watchful and silent and invulnerable to him.

Stepping east on Forty-Second Street in glamorous black drag, he’s such a dark flame that I keep him in my sights quite readily. He crosses Eighth Avenue. Though delicate of movement and frame, he is sending out a presence like a shadow-play of knives now: sensual contempt and a penetrating scepticism burn out from in between his long mascara’d lashes, lit from within by a pent-up violence. He starts, as if a finger has tapped on his forehead, but sees there is nothing there and puts it from his mind. He looks around. “People, for the most part,” he thinks, “deserve to die.” Walking, he imagines that he stands upon a roof here, holding a giant metal whip whose wire lash he cracks hard, so it shoots through the air at his targets, straight to where he’s known they will run for escape, till it finds them and coils around their necks, coiling tight and ever quicker so it cuts through cleanly, the streets awash with blood and rolling heads and running torsos—

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To watch the complete chapter from which this little teaser was excerpted, or to find any of the 11 chapters that constitute the novella’s video-book format, see
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