He wasn__ sure why he felt so compelled to follow the singing, or why he needed to bring the foot with him, but he knew the two phenomena were connected. And in the midst of the mystery lay his father. His father__ sanity. Nicholas was sure of this.
What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.
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What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.
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