[The look in his eyes, it's manic, too-bright, glittering with almost unearthly enthusiasm. Wonderful isn't the word any sane person would use for what happened to Windom Earle when he disappeared, why he came back changed.
But wonderful is the word he uses now, because he knows what he saw and found and was sent back to do, and he knows how much it destroys his former partner to remain in the dark — about him, about Caroline, about everything.
And his despair, his fear, that broken note edging in his voice, is so exhilarating.]
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[The look in his eyes, it's manic, too-bright, glittering with almost unearthly enthusiasm. Wonderful isn't the word any sane person would use for what happened to Windom Earle when he disappeared, why he came back changed.
But wonderful is the word he uses now, because he knows what he saw and found and was sent back to do, and he knows how much it destroys his former partner to remain in the dark — about him, about Caroline, about everything.
And his despair, his fear, that broken note edging in his voice, is so exhilarating.]
And someday it will happen again.
[It is happening. Again.]