All Chapters of The Nameless Man With A Thousand Legacies: Chapter 61
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061 Banned
Morgana let the noise run until it wore itself out, and then she let it run a little longer."Sparta City," she said.Ninety thousand people went quiet so fast that Jack heard a glass being set down four rows away.Her voice through the system was low and unhurried, and it did not rise at any point in the next four minutes."Selena Hart crossed a continent to sing in a city your governments have spent thirty years telling you is dangerous."She paused."She is still alive. Do thank her on the way out."The hall laughed. Forty million people in the streets laughed with it."My son is in the glass box above this stage. He is nine, he has waited two years for tonight, and he has not sat down once."Something almost warm moved under the veil and did not reach any further than that."My daughter is with him. Be kind about the crying. She is very young and the song was beautiful."Jack stood against the wall by the door with his arms folded and let all of it go past him."Forty-one countrie
062 Riddled With Holes
Juliet Forbes was lying in broken glass with Jack Hardy's arm still behind her head."Jack," she said. "What are you doing in Sparta? I got your letter—"Bullets ripping through concrete echoed in the distance.Jack raised his gaze on instinct. His eyes moved over the hall in short flat passes, up to the terrace, along the third tier, back down the aisle, and they did not land on her face once."Look at me. Talk to me. Don't pretend that we are strangers"Jack stood up off her and turned away. "You are mistaken, ma'am. I'm not who you think I am."Juliet got her hand up to catch his sleeve, but he was already three seats away, going up the aisle with his shoulders square and the dark glasses back on.Jack Hardy saved her life and then walked away pretending she was a stranger."Juliet! Oh God, Juliet."David Cross climbed out from between the seats with dust all down the front of his jacket.Dean Drummonds got up from under a cocktail table by the rail, on his hands first, then his kn