You’ve gone completely to pieces. Okxxx But then the door snapped shut behind him, and he was alone, in the dark. On the opposite side of the glass was a gray, haggard woman whose silver hair floated around her head, beady red eyes pinning Murphy where he stood as her claw-like fingernails scratched the glass. He was convinced now that the whole day, even this, must be a dream, or a delusion, but he accepted the subjective reality of it, presuming he had no choice. Some seemed to be ill; men and women with pale and drawn features, and yet they did not appear to be ailing. “What is wrong with the people here?” Murphy said, but no one was around to answer. Very confused?”
She ripped off her own blouse, sending
